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Ice contact depositional features Flashcards

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Drumlins

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  • Egg shaped hill made of till.
  • Usually in clusters on flat valley floors.
  • Indictors of direction and velocity of past ice movement.
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Lateral moraine

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Till deposited along valley SIDES.

Formed from freeze thaw.

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Medial moraine

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Till deposited in the MIDDLE of valley.

When two merging glaciers join.

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Terminal moraine

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Till deposited at the ACTIVE END to a glacier.

When glacier moving forward.

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Recessional moraine

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Glacier retreats and it becomes the secondary line of sediment at end of glacier.

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