The UK's physical landscape.
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- Created on: 14-10-18 13:56
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- The UK's physical landscape
- Glaciation
- As mountain ranges were uplifted rivers eroded the V-shaped valleys and they became U-shaped valleys.
- As glaciers melt they leave features like waterfalls.
- Glaciers are like rivers but made of ice.
- Rock types
- Igneous rock
- Comes from magma (molten rock)
- Granite forms when magma cools from inside the earth.
- Difficult to erode
- They are impermable
- Examples-dolerite and andestie
- Metamorphic rock
- Forms when exiting rock changes because of bheat or pressure.
- Hard to erode
- They are impermeable
- Examples-marble and Schist
- Sedimentary rock
- Formed when sediment is deposited in layers in the water. As layers compress sedimentary rock is formed.
- They are permeable
- They erode easily.
- Examples- limestone, clay and sandstone.
- Igneous rock
- Glaciation
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