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corrie
a horseshoe-shaped valley which is formed through erosion by ice or glaciers.
freeze thaw weathring helps
arete
two corries form side by side , the glaciers erode between them leaving a sharp rigid rock
prtimidal peak
3 or 4 corrie around a mountain when they erode into the back of mountain they create pyrimidal peak
freeze thaw weathring
makes plucking easier water freezes in crack of rock then it expands to then repats
erosion
glacier picks up materials in two ways abraison plicking
depostion
he laying down of sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice
morraines
material left by moving glacier
drumlins
low hills sign that an area has been glaciated
erratics
a glacier carries huge rocks when it melts the rocks are droppend and left randomyly
they are big
hanging valley
a small is a small valley that hangs above a larger ones
v shpaed valley
un in the mountain a reiver carvers out a v shapped valleys
sitrations
deep scratches in glacier
ribbon lakes
A ribbon lake is a long and very deep, finger-shaped lake, usually found in a glacial trough
truncted spurs
landforms that occur in glaciated areas.