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Glacial landforms

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All the landforms in Glaciation
izzy Tye
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Glacial landforms
  1. Erosional landforms
    1. corries
      1. Arete
        1. Pyramidal peaks
        2. Glacial trough
          1. Hanging valleys
            1. truncated spurs
              1. Formation of landscapes due to ice-sheet scouring
                1. Crag and tail
                  1. Roche mountonee
                    1. Knock and lochan
                    2. Ribbon lakes
                    3. Periglacial landforms
                      1. Blockfeilds
                        1. Talus (scree)
                          1. Nivation hollows
                            1. Patterned ground
                              1. Sorted stone polygons
                                1. Ice wedges
                                  1. Pingos
                                    1. Solifluction lobes
                                      1. Braided river
                                        1. Loess
                                        2. Depositional landforms
                                          1. Ice-contact depositional landforms
                                            1. Morains
                                              1. Ground morain
                                                1. Terminal morain
                                                  1. Recessional morain
                                                    1. Lateral morain
                                                      1. Medial morain
                                                      2. Drumlins
                                                      3. Lowland depositional features
                                                        1. Till plain
                                                          1. Erratics
                                                        2. Meltwater landforms
                                                          1. Ice-contact features
                                                            1. Eskers
                                                              1. Kames
                                                                1. Kame terraces
                                                                  1. Kame deltas
                                                                    1. Crevasse kames
                                                                  2. Pro-glacial features
                                                                    1. Sandur (outwash plain)
                                                                      1. Meltwater channels
                                                                        1. pro-glacial lakes
                                                                          1. Kettle holes

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