enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Glacier morphology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_morphology

    Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand Features of a glacial landscape. Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors. [1] The goal of glacial morphology is to gain a better understanding of glaciated landscapes and the way they are shaped. [2]

  3. Glacial landform - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_landform

    Arête: spiky high land between two glaciers. If the glacial action erodes through, a spillway (or col) forms; Horn: a sharp peak connecting multiple glacier intersections, made up of multiple arêtes. Valley step: an abrupt change in the longitudinal slope of a glacial valley

  4. Kame - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kame

    However, with the continuous melting of the glacier, the kame delta eventually collapses onto the land surface, furthering the "kame and kettle" topography. Kame terraces are frequently found along the side of a glacial valley and are stratified deposits of meltwater streams flowing between the ice and the adjacent valley side. [ 4 ]

  5. Kame delta - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kame_delta

    A kame delta (or ice-contact delta, morainic delta [1]) is a glacial landform formed by a stream of melt water flowing through or around a glacier and depositing material, known as kame (stratified sequence of sediments) deposits. Upon entering a proglacial lake at the end (terminus) of a glacier, the river/stream deposit these sediments. This ...

  6. U-shaped valley - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-shaped_valley

    Glaciers will spread out evenly in open areas, but tend to carve deep into the ground when confined to a valley. [1] Ice thickness is a major contributing factor to valley depth and carving rates. As a glacier moves downhill through a valley, usually with a stream running through it, the shape of the valley is transformed.

  7. Glacier - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier

    Webber Glacier on Grant Land is an advancing polar glacier. Thermally, a temperate glacier is at a melting point throughout the year, from its surface to its base. The ice of a polar glacier is always below the freezing threshold from the surface to its base, although the surface snowpack may experience seasonal melting.

  8. Esker - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esker

    The shape is modified by coastal processes. An esker , eskar , eschar , or os , sometimes called an asar , osar , or serpent kame , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel , examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America.

  9. Glacial history of Minnesota - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_history_of_Minnesota

    Landscape produced by a receding glacier. As glaciers advanced and retreated through Minnesota, some of the ice that stagnated was more difficult to melt than other areas. The glaciers continued to deposit sediments around and sometimes on top of these isolated ice blocks. As the ice blocks melted, they left behind depressions in the landscape.