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  2. Glacial landform - Wikipedia

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    Glacial landforms are landforms created by the action of glaciers. Most of today's glacial landforms were created by the movement of large ice sheets during the Quaternary glaciations . Some areas, like Fennoscandia and the southern Andes , have extensive occurrences of glacial landforms; other areas, such as the Sahara , display rare and very ...

  3. Kame - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. Moraine - Wikipedia

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    Glacial landformLandform created by the action of glaciers; Drumlin – Elongated hill formed by glacial action; Esker – Long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel associated with former glaciers; Moraine-dammed lake – Type of lake formed by glaciation; Terminal moraine – Type of moraine that forms at the terminal of a glacier

  5. Category:Glacial landforms - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 25 November 2020, at 03:01 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Flute (glacial) - Wikipedia

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    Glacial flutes, also known as glacial fluting, are low, narrow, elongate, straight, parallel ridges that range between several centimeters to a few meters both in width and height. This glacial landform generally consist of glacial till , but sometimes either sand or silt and clay .

  7. Fluvioglacial landform - Wikipedia

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    Fluvio-glacial landforms and erosional surfaces include: outwash plains, kames, kame terraces, kettle holes, eskers, varves, and proglacial lakes. [4] Meltwater streams and formed by glaciers, especially in warmer seasons. Supra-glacial streams, those above the glacial surface, and subglacial streams, those beneath the glacial surface. [5]

  8. Cordilleran ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    The southern glacial maximums extended south to Washington state near Olympia in the west and to Spokane, the Idaho Panhandle, and much of Western Montana at the eastern glacial edge. At its eastern end the Cordilleran ice sheet merged with the Laurentide Ice Sheet at the Continental Divide , forming an area of ice that contained one and a half ...

  9. Glacio-geological databases - Wikipedia

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    British Ice Sheet: BRITICE is a Mode 1 database which aims to map all glacial landforms of Great Britain. [2] Eurasian Ice Sheet: DATED-1 is a Mode 2 database for the Eurasian ice-sheet. Its sister-project DATED-2 uses the information in DATED-1 to map the retreat of the Eurasian ice-sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum. [3]