Striations: parallel scratches that are formed by the debris beneath a glacier on the rocks below it as it flows over.
Cirque: a bowl shaped depression on the side of a mountain filled with ice and snow.
Pack ice: ice that is floating on a body of water.
Crevasse: a large crack in a glacier.
Esker: the deposits remaining from a river which ran on top of a glacier after the glacier has melted.
Outwash: the glacial deposits cared by melt water onto the area below the glacier.
Horn: - the distinctive shape of a mountain that has be carved by glaciers on all sides leaving sharp triangular or pyramid shape.
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