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Glacier revision keywords
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Mind Map on Glacier revision keywords, created by durbanellie on 31/03/2015.
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Glacier revision keywords
Erosion
The wearing away of rock, stone or soil
Abrasion
Scraping away material
Meltwater
The water from amelting glacier which feeds a river or lake
Glacial till
The load of rock, stones,sand and clay deposited by a glacier as it melts.
freeze-thaw weathering
where water freezes in cracks in rocks, making them bigger and eventually the rocks will break up
Transport
to carry things along
Plucking
When ice freezes around rocks under a glacier then pulls them out
deposit
To drop a material
Striations
grooves in rock, caused by abrasion when glaciers lowed over it
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