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Key Corrie Formation Terms 🤓 Flashcards

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Plucking

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Melt water from a glacier feezes to the rock. When the glacier is taken downhill the rocks go with it

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Abrasion

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When rocks which have frozen to the base and the back of the glacier scrapes the bedrock

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Freeze-thaw weathering

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When melt water gets into the cracks in the bedrock. At night the water freezes, expands and causes crack get bigger, rock will break away

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Scree

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Any material that has been broken off by freeze-thaw weathering

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Morraine

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Material left behind by a moving glacier

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