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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 ...
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In geography, a glacial deposit is a glacial landform, composed of sediments of varying size, from clay through sand to boulders, deposited in the landscape when the glacier withdraws. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
A kame, or knob, is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier.
Drumlins and drumlin swarms are glacial landforms composed primarily of glacial till. They form near the margin of glacial systems, and within zones of fast flow deep within ice sheets , and are commonly found with other major glacially-formed features (including tunnel valleys , eskers , scours, and exposed bedrock erosion ).
The Tollensesee, a glacial finger lake Map of the Ammersee showing its elongated shape. A Zungenbecken, also called a tongue basin [1] or tongue-basin, [2] is part of a succession of ice age geological landforms, known as a glacial series. It is a hollow that is left behind by the ice mass, as the snout of the glacier (German: Gletscherzunge, lit.
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]
Most glacial rock glaciers are created by the recession of debris covered glaciers. [citation needed] Glacial rock glaciers are often found in cirque basins where rocky debris falls off the steep sides and accumulates on ice glaciers. [3] As the glaciers shrink, their composition changes as they become increasingly covered with debris.