Fluvioglacial Landscapes
- Created by: freyababbage
- Created on: 14-02-20 18:20
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- Erosion
- Meltwater Channels= channel cut into ice, bedrock by the flow of water derived from the melting of a glacier or ice-sheet
- Meltwater
- Meltwater
- Pro-glacial lakes= a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet
- Misfit Stream= meander through the flat, wide U-shaped floor.
- Fluvioglacial Landscapes
- Deposition
- Outwash Plains= formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the end of a glacier
- Esker= long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel
- Kames/Kame Terraces= mounds of sediment deposited along the front of a slowly melting or stationary glacier/ice sheet
- Braided Stream= A
stream consisting of multiple small, shallow channels that divide and
recombine numerous times forming a pattern resembling the strands of a
braid.
- Outwash Plains= formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the end of a glacier
- Deposition
- Meltwater Channels= channel cut into ice, bedrock by the flow of water derived from the melting of a glacier or ice-sheet
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