Glacier revision keywords

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Mind Map on Glacier revision keywords, created by durbanellie on 31/03/2015.
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Glacier revision keywords
  1. Erosion
    1. The wearing away of rock, stone or soil
    2. Abrasion
      1. Scraping away material
      2. Meltwater
        1. The water from amelting glacier which feeds a river or lake
        2. Glacial till
          1. The load of rock, stones,sand and clay deposited by a glacier as it melts.
          2. freeze-thaw weathering
            1. where water freezes in cracks in rocks, making them bigger and eventually the rocks will break up
            2. Transport
              1. to carry things along
              2. Plucking
                1. When ice freezes around rocks under a glacier then pulls them out
                2. deposit
                  1. To drop a material
                  2. Striations
                    1. grooves in rock, caused by abrasion when glaciers lowed over it
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