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27 Cards in this Set
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cirque
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bowl on a mountain
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what is a lake inside of a cirque
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tarn
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what is ablation
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loss of ice from a glacier
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another term for a continental glacier
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ice sheet
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how much space does an ice sheet have to cover
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50,000 km2
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paleo lakes
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ancient lakes from thousands of years ago
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outwash plain
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the place where glaciers wash out to
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are outwash plains stratified or unstratified
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stratified
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esker
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tunnel from streams in ice/glaciers
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drumlin
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hill?
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kettle
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big lake at the bottom of a hill
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moraine
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border between glacier and nonglacier.
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till plain
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when a sheet of ice breaks and melts.
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point bar
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the sides of a stream that have deposited shit
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oxbow lake
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a lake that was a stream and isn't anymore
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what are alluvial terraces
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flat surfaces that step up from the river
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strike slip faults are horizontal or vertical?
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horizontal
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caldera
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volcano that collapses
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graben
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lower block of land when when faults push an even piece of land up or down.
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are normal faults vertical or horizontal
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vertical
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anticline
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arch
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syncline
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trough
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if its colorful that menas it has a lot of or few iron oxides
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a lot of
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what color is humus?
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dark dark
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what is hue
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color (red blue green) means iron oxides or not
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value
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black or white black means low and humus
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chroma
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how bright are the colors
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