Monday, June 14, 2010

Continental Glacier: cover a entire continent like Antarctica or Greenland
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.
Ice Burg: a large piece of floating ice that have broken off from the toe of a glacier into water or large ice sheet covering an ocean.
Ice fall: waterfalls that have frozen forming a steep pillar of ice.
Valley Glacier: a glacier found in a valley carved by ice

Ice field: a large accumulation of ice at the top of mountain or filling the valley between two peaks with a continuous sheet of ice.


Ice Cap: a dome of snow which has accumulated and compressed into ice at the top of a mountain.



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