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glacial abrasion

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  • Glacial striation — Glacial striations or glacial grooves are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by process of glacial abrasion. Glacial striations usually occur as multiple straight, parallel grooves representing the movement of the sediment loaded base of the… …   Wikipedia

  • glacial landform — ▪ geology Introduction  any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated areas, such as Greenland, Antarctica, and many of the world s higher mountain ranges. In addition, large expansions of present… …   Universalium

  • Abrasion (geology) — Abrasion is mechanical scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks and moving particles during their transport in wind, glacier, waves, gravity or running water, after friction, the moving particles dislodge loose and weak debris from… …   Wikipedia

  • Estría glacial — Estriaciones glaciares en el Parque Nacional del Monte Rainier, Estados Unidos Las estrías glaciales son rayaduras hechas sobre una roca por el paso de un glaciar por encima. Concretamente las estrías glaciares se forman producto de la abrasión… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Glacier — This article is about the geological formation. For other uses, see Glacier (disambiguation). The Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram, Kashmir, Northern Pakistan. At 62 kilometres (39 mi) in length, it is one of the longest alpine glaciers on… …   Wikipedia

  • Cirque — For other uses, see Cirque (disambiguation). Two cirques with semi permanent snowpatches in Abisko National Park, Sweden …   Wikipedia

  • medial moraine —     a) An elongate moraine carried in or upon the middle of a glacier and parallel to its sides, usually formed by the merging of adjacent and inner lateral moraines below the junction of two coalescing valley glaciers.     b) A moraine formed by …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

  • rockflour — rock flour n. Finely ground rock particles produced by glacial abrasion. Also called glacier meal. * * * …   Universalium

  • Atlantic Ocean — an ocean bounded by North America and South America in the Western Hemisphere and by Europe and Africa in the Eastern Hemisphere. ab. 31,530,000 sq. mi. (81,663,000 sq. km); with connecting seas ab. 41,000,000 sq. mi. (106,100,000 sq. km);… …   Universalium

  • striations —   scratch marks or grooves found on a rock surface that has experienced glacial abrasion …   Geography glossary

  • lateral moraine —    A ridge like moraine carried on and deposited at the side margin of a valley glacier. It is composed chiefly of rock fragments derived from valley walls by glacial abrasion and plucking, or colluvial accumulation from adjacent slopes.    GG …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

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