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Depositional Landforms Flashcards

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Drumlins

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Streamlined mounds of till deposited by glacier varying in size

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Erratics

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Singular, irregularly shaped boulders dropped by a melting glacier

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Lateral moraine

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Ridge of till along valley floor, built up at side of glacier

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Medial moraine

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Ridge of till down middle of valley formed when two glaciers come together

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Terminal moraine

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Shows furthest advance of glacier extending across valley floor

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