Depositional Glacier Landforms

Question 0

Stratified drift: (3)

Answer 0

Glacial fluvial deposit.
Sorted by size and layered.
Outwash - stratified drift deposited by glacial streams.

Question 1

Glacial marine drift: Floating ice melts and

Answer 1

Material drops to sea floor.

A braided and striated rocks are present.

Question 2

Medial maraine:

Answer 2

Where two glaciers merge, this is the middle of a larger flow.

Question 3

Lateral moraine:

Answer 3

Drift deposited at the side of a glacier.

Question 4

Terminal moraine:

Answer 4

Drift deposited at the front end of glacier.

Question 5

Ground moraine: (2)

Answer 5

Released at the glacier margin.

Wide spread drift smoothly plastered into land.

Question 6

Glaciofluvial deposit:

Answer 6

Deposited indirectly from glacial meltwater.

Question 7

Glaciomarine deposit:

Answer 7

Deposited from ice floating in the sea.

Question 8

Glacial deposition:

Answer 8

Material deposited directly from ice.

Question 9

Till: (2)

Answer 9

Unsorted drift, produced by glacial deposition.

Mix of similar rock fragments from abrasion and attrition of bedrock.