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zone of accumulation |
ablation zone |
firn (neve) |
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till |
drift |
outwash |
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rock flour |
budget |
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continental glacier |
piedmont glacier |
ice cap |
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moraine |
terminal (end) moraine |
recessional moraine |
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medial moraine |
lateral moraine |
crevasses |
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extrusion |
striations |
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surge |
top load |
|
suspended load |
finger lakes |
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plucking |
fiord (fjord) |
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traction |
pebble counts |
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col |
arete |
|
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spur |
truncated spur |
|
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valley train |
hanging valley |
|
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headwall |
cirque |
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bergschrund |
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continental glacial features
|
ground (ablation) moraine |
terrace |
|
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drumlin |
roche montonee |
esker |
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kame (delta kame) |
kettle |
varves |
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erratic |
loess |
Lake Agassiz |
ice age
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3 ice centers |
stage |
interstadial |
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glacial rebound |
eustatic |
Wisconsin |
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Sangamon |
Illinoian |
pre-Illinoian |
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Kansan |
Nebraskan |
Aftonian |
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Milankovitch Hypothesis |
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Here are pictures of glacieal features in southeast Alaska: a tidewater glacier (reaches the sea), another tidewater glacier, margin of a tidewater glacier, margin of another tidewater glacier that has eroded a curved valley, Margerie Glacier which calves into Glacier Bay, New Eddystone Rock - a volcaninc neck in a thousand foot deep fjord.
Click here to see my list of ice facts.
Click here for more glacier information.
Virtual Field Trip in Glacier National Park. http://www.nps.gov/glac/eHikes.htm
