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Pleistocene epoch
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Common synonym for Ice Age
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Alpine glacier valley modification
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straightens widens deepens it
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Antarctica
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Earth’s largest ice mass
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Fiord
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drowned glacial trough
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Drumlins
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mounds of unsorted till found in clusters
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Drumlin’s steep side
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points to glacial direction of origin
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Medial moraine
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created by 2 joined lateral moraines
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Kettle
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drift buried ice block melts creating a pit
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Ground moraine
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layer of deposited till
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Esker
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long narrow sinuous ridge of sorted till
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