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10 Cards in this Set
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Till Plain |
A layer of till Till - Rich deep soil |
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Moraines |
Ridges of till left either at the front or sides of a glacier as it retreats |
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Drumlins |
Egg shaped hill |
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Erratics |
large bolder that was carried inside the glacier and when it melted it left the bolder in the middle of a field |
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Esker |
long sinuous ridge of sand and gravel |
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Kettle Lakes |
Blocks of ice get separated. They are buried by out-wash. They melt and form lakes. |
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Kames |
are steep mounds or conical hills built by material dropped in a hole |
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Isostatic Rebound |
When glaciers melt huge amounts of water must flow away. Left behind is a little tiny stream called a misfit stream |
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U-shaped Valley |
Jagged mountain valleys which have had glaciers pass through them become smooth and u-shaped |
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Striations |
When rocks are carried in the bottom of a glacier and creates groves in the rock it traveling past |
