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11 Cards in this Set
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Deepened existing
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valleys
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Isostatic rebound
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long tem raising of a portion of the earth's surface, as a result of glacial activity in the past
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the weight of glacers
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pushed the earth's crust down
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lake bonneville created
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great salt lake in Utah
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the great salt lake is now saltier than the ocean b/c of
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evaporation leaving the salt behind
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drift
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deposits of glacial origin
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till
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material deposited by ice as it melts
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till is made up or
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everything from large rocks to fine sediments
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glacial melt water
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causes deposits of statified setiments
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stratified setiments are
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materials that have been naturally sorted
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Fjores
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caused when a glacial trough created a u shaped valley and then the sea level raises
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