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| a pile of debris that has been transported and deposited by a glacier |
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| a ridge of sorted sediment and gravel deposited in sub-glacial melt water tunnels |
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| water filled depression left by a glacial ice block |
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| boulders left on the surface |
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| elongated hills formed when a glacier overrides a glacial till |
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| sand and gravels deposited by glacial melt water |
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| a pyramid-like peak formed by glacial action in 3 or more cirques surrounding a mountain summit |
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| a narrow, knifelike ridge separating 2 adjacent glaciated valleys |
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| a tributary that enters a glacial trough high above the floor of the trough |
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| eroded triangular shaped cliffs in glaciated valleys |
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| an amphitheater-shaped basin at the head of a glaciated valley |
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| material depostited directly by the glacier |
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| material laid down by glacial melt water |
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| - A thick ice mass that originates on land from the accumulation, compaction, and recrystallization of snow |
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| Smaller than continental, covers only a small region, lengths greater than widths |
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| Covers 10% of earth’s land, bigger than mountain glaciers |
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| rotation of grains, slipping along weak surfaces, melting and refreezing |
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| basal slip (slipping on a layer of water between the ice and bedrock) |
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| tend to accentuate the landscape |
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| Tend to subdue the landscape |
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Wisconsinan
Illinoian
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| stages of glaciation in illinois |
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| where glaciers advance from |
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Eccentricity of orbit
Changes in earth’s tilt
Precession of the equinoxes |
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| the 3 parts of Milakovitch's Theory |
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| Areas where the summer climate is too cold for all the snow to melt |
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| this is where glaciers form |
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| The middle of the glacier |
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| where within the glacier the movement is faster |
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