Glacial landforms

Glacial landforms

1. Erosional landforms

   • corries
     • Arete
     • Pyramidal peaks
   • Glacial trough
   • Hanging valleys
   • truncated spurs
   • Formation of landscapes due to ice-sheet scouring
     • Crag and tail
     • Roche mountonee
     • Knock and lochan
   • Ribbon lakes

2. Periglacial landforms

   • Blockfeilds
   • Talus (scree)
   • Nivation hollows
   • Patterned ground
   • Sorted stone polygons
   • Ice wedges
   • Pingos
   • Solifluction lobes
   • Braided river
   • Loess

3. Depositional landforms

   • Ice-contact depositional landforms
     • Morains
       • Ground morain
       • Terminal morain
       • Recessional morain
       • Lateral morain
       • Medial morain
     • Drumlins
   • Lowland depositional features
     • Till plain
     • Erratics

4. Meltwater landforms

   • Ice-contact features
     • Eskers
     • Kames
       • Kame terraces
       • Kame deltas
       • Crevasse kames
   • Pro-glacial features
     • Sandur (outwash plain)
     • Meltwater channels
     • pro-glacial lakes
     • Kettle holes

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