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  2. Plucking (glaciation) - Wikipedia

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    Plucking, also referred to as quarrying, is a glacial phenomenon that is responsible for the weathering and erosion of pieces of bedrock, especially large "joint blocks". This occurs in a type of glacier called a "valley glacier".

  3. Abrasion (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Abrasion can crush smaller grains or particles and remove grains or multigrain fragments, but the removal of larger fragments is classified as plucking (or quarrying), the other major erosion source from glaciers. Plucking creates the debris at the base or sides of the glacier that causes abrasion.

  4. Erosion - Wikipedia

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    Erosion is the action of surface processes ... Kolks cause extreme local erosion, plucking bedrock and creating pothole-type geographical features called rock-cut basins.

  5. Glacier - Wikipedia

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    The erosion that creates glacial valleys truncates any spurs of rock or earth that may have earlier extended across the valley, creating broadly triangular-shaped cliffs called truncated spurs. Within glacial valleys, depressions created by plucking and abrasion can be filled by lakes, called paternoster lakes.

  6. Glacial erratic - Wikipedia

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    Plucking – pieces of bedrock are cracked off by glaciers, producing larger erratics. Ice thrusting – the glacier freezes to its bed, moving large sheets of frozen sediment at its base along with it. Glacially induced spalling – layers of rock are spalled off the rocks below the glacier during ice lens formation. This provides smaller ...

  7. Roche moutonnée - Wikipedia

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    Roche moutonnée near Myot Hill, Scotland In glaciology, a roche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier.The passage of glacial ice over underlying bedrock often results in asymmetric erosional forms as a result of abrasion on the "stoss" (upstream) side of the rock, and plucking (i.e. pieces cracked off) on the "lee" (downstream) side.

  8. Glacial stream - Wikipedia

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    Erosion occurs by abrasion and plucking. [4] These processes are dependent on a variety of factors such as plate tectonic movement, volcanic activity, and changes in atmospheric gas composition. [5] Glacial erosion often causes U-shaped valleys to form. [6] These valleys allow for directed water movement such as seen in glacial streams with ...

  9. Till - Wikipedia

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    Glacial till is mostly derived from subglacial erosion and from the entrainment by the moving ice of previously available unconsolidated sediments. Bedrock can be eroded through the action of glacial plucking and abrasion, and the resulting clasts of various sizes will be incorporated to the glacier's bed. [11]