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Glaciers Flashcards

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Striations

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Long, parallel scratches left on rocks and bedrock by glacial movement
Can tell the direction of glacier movement from them

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Glacial valleys

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V shaped valley formed by erosion
Sedimentary rock, hills, but mostly very flat
Fertile farm land
Tectonics affect it

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Arête

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Sharp divide that separates to adjoining cirques

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Crevasses

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Great fissure/crack in glacier

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Cirque

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Semicircular basin found at head of a glacial valley formed by a valleyglacier

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Drifts

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All material of glacial origin (found anywhere)

Erosion, transport, deposit by glaciers

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Drumlins

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Long, smooth, egg shaped hill usually found in groups, shaped by an advancing glacier
Layered
Rock/glacial tills
Surrounded by bogs/swamps
1-2km long
400-600m wide
15-30m high
Composition varies
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Eskers

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Long, winding ridge formed when sand and gravel fill meltwater tunnels beneath a glacier 
Ridges of sand and gravel
Hundreds of kms
Gravel is rich (used to build stuff)
Show direction of motion 
(The drugs drawing)
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Erratics

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Large Boulder that has been transported into an area by a glacier

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Horns

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Pyramid shaped peak formed when three or more cirques meet

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Kettle lakes

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A kettle filled with water

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Kettles

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Bowl-like hollow in deposits of glacial outwash; formed by the melting of a large block of ice left behind by a glacier
Some partially buried (sediment flowing down)
Some completely buried (sediment collapsing)

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Kames

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Small
Come shaped
Sand and gravel
Water pulling it off the surface
(Unwanted dirt drawing)
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Moraine

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Deposit of till left behind when a glacier retreats
Has forests
Wetlands
Streams
Vegetation
Aquifer
Woodelts
(Burn drawing)
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Outwash plains

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Broad, stratified gently sloping deposit of sediment formed beyond the terminal moraine by streams from a melting glacier
Flat stuff in front of a glacier

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Plucking

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Phenomenon responsible for erosion and transportation of individual pieces of bedrock
Valley glaciers

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Till

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Unsorted and unstratified Rock material deposited directly by glacial ice

18
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Glacier

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Large mass of compacted snow and ice that moves under the force of gravity

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How do glaciers form?

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More snow falls than melts

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Firn

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Granular snow on the upper part of a glacier that has not yet been compressed into ice

21
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Valley glacier

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Within valley walls
Go downhill because gravity
In mountains
May be <2km or >100km
Hundreds of m thick
Create glacial valleys and cirques
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Continental glacier

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Covers large part of continent
Form because more snow falls than melts
Thousands of m thick
3km thick
1.7km^2 in area
Create round peaks
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Ice cap

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A glacier < 50 000 km^2 in area

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How do glaciers move

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Plastic flow

25
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What part of a glacier moves the faster

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Surface and centre

Bottom is slush (ice melts and refreezes)

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Basal slip

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Meltwater between glacier bottom and surface

Makes less friction so glacier moves faster

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Plastic flow

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Ice grains deform, can be almost flat and slide past each other
Creates forward movement

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Ice front

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Ice melting at end of glacier

29
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Connection between icebergs and glaciers

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Glaciers become icebergs

30
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When did the Great Lakes form

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10 000 years ago

31
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Why are the Great Lake basins so deep

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They don’t drain into the sea (so they erode the bottom of the basins)

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How deep are the Great Lake basins

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Well below sea level (164m, 52m, 105m, 215m)

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Michigan and Huron formation

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Selective erosion of weak rock layers

Also same as Lake Ontario - but they were connected and going through different isostatic rebound

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Ontario and Erie formation

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St Lawrence River stuff
Laurentide ice sheet
Ordovician shales (soft)

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Superior formation

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Mid-continent rift

36
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Warsaw

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Fissure caves

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Fissure caves

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Large caves underground with collapsed roofs

Large limestone blocks tilting down into the collapsed caverns

38
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How were drumlins made?

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Who knowsssss
-close to ice margins?
-same time under ice sheet swathes?
-2-stage: fluvially-deposited
A good theory: explains full range of observations, variations in shape/scale/composition
39
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Glacial lake Algonquin and Iroquois

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Giant lakes where the Great Lakes are now

They drained and that’s how we have the lakes we have today and y’know all the other cool stuff

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Karst topography

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A landscape characterized by numerous caves, sinkholes, fissures, underground streams

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Roches moutonnés

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Small, bare outcrop of rock shaped by glacial erosion, with one side smooth and gently sloping and the other steep, rough, irregular

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