Glacial Landforms
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?- Created by: Stephen Little
- Created on: 19-04-13 17:04
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- Hanging Valleys
- Valleys formed by smaller glaciers folowing into the main glacier.
- The glacier through is eroded much more deeply by the larger glacier, so when the glacier melt the valleys are left at a higher level
- Glacial Landforms
- Hanging Valleys
- Valleys formed by smaller glaciers folowing into the main glacier.
- The glacier through is eroded much more deeply by the larger glacier, so when the glacier melt the valleys are left at a higher level
- Truncated Spurs
- Cliff like edges on the valley side formed when ridges of land that stick out into the valley are cut of as the glacier moves past.
- Ribbion Lakes
- These are long, thin lakes that form after a glacier retreats. They form hollows where softer rock was eroded more than the surronding hard rock.
- Corries
- Hollows containing a small glacier. Eroded by rotational slip forming a armchair shape with a lip at the bottom.
- When the ive melts it can leave a small lake called a tarn.
- Pyramidal Peak
- It is formed when three or more back-to-back glaciers erode a mountain
- This is a pointed mountain peak of at least three sides
- Glacial Troughs
- Steep-sided valleys with flat bottoms. The y start of as a V-Shaped river valley but change to a U-shape as the glacier erodes the sides and bottom, making it deeper and wider.
- Arete
- These are steep-sided ridge formed when two glaciers flow in pararllel valleys
- The glaciers erode the sides of the valleys, which sharpen the ridge between them.
- Hanging Valleys
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