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Glacier/Ice Erosion
A continental glacier is a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island.
The till deposited at the edges of a glacier forms a ridge called moraine.
A kettle is a small depression that forms when a chunk of ice is left in glacial till.
This process called, abrasion gouges and scratches the bedrock.
The mixture of sediments that glacier deposits directly on the surface is called till.
A single glacier ice crystal can grow to be as large as a baseball.
Glacier are found in 47 countries.
Glaciers provide some of our water. In fact they provide about 75 percent of our water.
Alaska is estimated to have more than 100,000 glaciers. Some remain unnamed.
As a glacier flows over the land, it picks up rock in a process called plucking.
Glaciers form when snow remains in the same area year-round, where enough snow accumulates to transform into ice.
Approximately ten percent of earth is covered in glaciers.
Glaciers are like flowing rivers, they flow just like rivers but a lot slower.
What is a Glacier?
A glacier is a large mass of slow moving ice and snow on land.
On steep slopes glaciers can be as thin as fifty feet.
The ice erodes the land surface and carries the broken rocks and soil debris far from the original places, resulting in some interesting glacial landforms.