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corrie

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a horseshoe-shaped valley which is formed through erosion by ice or glaciers.
freeze thaw weathring helps

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arete

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two corries form side by side , the glaciers erode between them leaving a sharp rigid rock

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prtimidal peak

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3 or 4 corrie around a mountain when they erode into the back of mountain they create pyrimidal peak

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freeze thaw weathring

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makes plucking easier water freezes in crack of rock then it expands to then repats

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erosion

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glacier picks up materials in two ways abraison plicking

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depostion

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he laying down of sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice

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morraines

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material left by moving glacier

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drumlins

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low hills sign that an area has been glaciated

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erratics

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a glacier carries huge rocks when it melts the rocks are droppend and left randomyly
they are big

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hanging valley

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a small is a small valley that hangs above a larger ones

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v shpaed valley

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un in the mountain a reiver carvers out a v shapped valleys

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sitrations

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deep scratches in glacier

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ribbon lakes

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A ribbon lake is a long and very deep, finger-shaped lake, usually found in a glacial trough

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truncted spurs

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landforms that occur in glaciated areas.

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