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Glacial Erosion Flashcards

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Abrasion

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Scraping bedrock as flows leaving striations

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Plucking

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Pulling away rock as moves against surfaces

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Basal melting

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Basal slip due to friction and lubrication, picking up rock

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Ice Sheet Scouring

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Knock and lochan landscape - Small, irregular hills due to widespread plucking and abrasion from ice sheet

Roches Moutonnes - Smooth, round slope facing away from direction of glacier

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