Depositional Landforms Flashcards

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Drumlins

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Oval shaped hills composed of unsorted glacial tilland aligned in the direction of ice flow, with steep end at the front (stoss) and a shallow side at the back (lee)

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Erattics

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A large boulder that doesn’t match the surrounding rock type, the glacier deposits it was it doesn’t have the energy to move it anymore

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Moraines

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Till deposited by or in a glacier
Sub, en and supra moraine
Lateral, medial, ressecional, push and terminal moraine

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Till plains

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Found at the end of a glacier where all of the till carried by the glacier is deposited

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