Glaciers

Glaciers

1. What is Relief

   • Relief is the steepness of slopes, shapes of landscape features, the height above sea level land.

2. Upper Course Glacier Features

   • Corries
   • Aretes ( two corries is aretes)
   • Pyramidal Peak ( 3 or more corries)

3. Freeze-thaw weathering

   • Abrasion
     • Rubbing scree on the rocks
   • Plucking
     • Freezing and prying off rocks

4. Glacial Sediment

   • Moraine

5. Glacial sediment transported

   • Freezes in the ice then melts or it it bulldozed by the glacier

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