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ICE AGE
Glacial Landforms
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Geology
Undergraduate 2
11/28/2007

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Cirque
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Cracks in the glacier form, liquid flows into them, it turns into ice over night, glacier keeps moving and plucking and forms a cirque.

 

Applachians, Rockies, Alps, Himalayas

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Arete
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Streams flow down a mountain, they form trenches, it's a radial drainage, ice flow down stream valleys. deepen and widen valleys. mountains can have multiple glaciers. ridges between valleys are the Aretes.
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Col
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Horn
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Nunatak
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Gipelflur
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Trimline

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Crescentic Fractures

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Crescentic Gouges
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Whalebacks
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Roche Mountains
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Braided Streams
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Deranged Drainage: Abandoned Valley

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Deranged Drainage: Buried Valley
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Deranged Drainage: Misfit Stream
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Deranged Drainage: Stream Blockage
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Deranged Drainage: Stream Capture
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Deranged Drainage: Stream Displacement
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Deranged Drainage: Stream Reversal
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Jokulhlaup
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