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23 Cards in this Set
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glacier where the average temperature around it is above freezing
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temerate glacier
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glacier staying frozen year round
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polar glacier
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3 types of morphological glaciers
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Alpine, Piedmont, Ice sheet/cap
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glacier confined by walls on at least 3 sides
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alpine glacier
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glacier flowing out onto flat land in a lobate shape
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piedmont glacier
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glacier overwhelming topography flowing out onto it
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ice sheet/cap
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mound of sediment directly deposited by glaciers
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moraine
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sediment deposited by glaciers
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till
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sediment actually moved by the glacier
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unstratified till
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sediment formed within the glacier usually through meltwater channels
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stratified till
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unconsolidated, unsorted material
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diamict
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cemented unconsolidated, unsorted material
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diamictite
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silt sized quartz formed by glaciers
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glacial flour
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sediment originally deposited by a glacier then reworked
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outwash
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glacial sediments flowing into a marine environment
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glacial marine sedimentation
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underwater moraine
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grounding zone wedging
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area containing grounding zone wedging right next to the glacier
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proximal deposits
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iceburg furrows
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Distal deposits
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material carried out by an iceburg that falls onto the sea floor
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ice rafted debris
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setting where continent meets marine
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marginal marine
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protuberance in the shoreline where a river meets the ocean
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delta
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3 dominating factors of marginal marine environments
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rivers, waves, tides
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delta jutting outward depositing sediment as land
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fluvial dominated delta
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