Glaciers
- Created by: Danielle
- Created on: 14-05-13 11:40
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- Glacial Environments
- Processes
- Plucking
- Ripping out of material
- Abrasion
- An effect like sandpaper
- Erosion of the bedrock by material carried in glacier
- Freeze-thaw
- fracture of rock by the continuing freezing and melting of ice in rock cracks
- Chemical weathering
- Water reacting with minerals
- Plucking
- Features
- Corries
- Arm chair shaped hollow
- Arete
- Sharp ridge
- Pyramidal peak
- Formed by 3 or more corries on the side of a mountain
- Shaped like a pyramid
- Tarn
- lake formed inside a corrie
- Hanging valley
- a small valley formed by a smaller glacier that is found on the side of the wall of thelarger valley
- Moraine
- Glacial deposits that have been moved
- Scree
- sediment collected at the foot of cliffs that have broken off
- Corries
- Case Studies
- Alaska
- exploitation of resources
- Antartica
- Tourism
- managing a cold environment
- Alps
- Ski tourism
- Sustainable management
- Alaska
- Processes
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