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Glaciofluvial landforms Flashcards

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Categories of glaciofluvial landform

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Ice Contact
Outwash/Proglacial

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Ice Contact Landforms

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Eskers
Kames

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Outwash/proglacial Landforms

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Kettle Holes
Sandur
Varves

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Eskers

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Long sinuous ridges of sands + gravel desposited by meltwater flow

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Kames

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Hills, ridges, terraces of stratified sands + gravel

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Sandur

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Outwash Plain
Flat expense of rounded, sorted + stratified sands/gravels

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Varves

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Thin + contrasting pair of layers of clay/sand representing the deposits of a single year (Winter + Summer)

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Kettle Holes

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Detached ice blocks buried by deposits
Melting leaves holes/depressions
Depressions fill with water

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