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U shaped valley

Snow compressed to ice and forms a glacier.


The glacier uses the process of plucking to steeped the sides of the valley.


Plucking is when Ice sticks onto rocks at the sides of the valley and as the glacier moves downhill it rips rocks out.


Glacier used abrasion and plucking to widen and deepen the valley

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