Key Words Flashcards
1
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Néve
A
Low density ice crystals
2
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Pleistocene era
A
last glacial period
3
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interglacial period
A
present day period
4
Q
glacial budget
A
difference between accumulation and ablation over a year
5
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accumulations
A
ice adding to glacier
6
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ablation
A
ice decreasing in the glacier
7
Q
types of permafrost
A
continuous discontinuous sporadic
8
Q
plucking
A
glacier scrapes across surrounding rock a pulls rock fragments off of it
9
Q
frost shattering
A
the process of alternate freezing and thawing
10
Q
solifluction
A
progressive movement of mass down a slope due to freeze thaw
11
Q
scouring
A
abrasion-like action
12
Q
supraglacial
A
on the surface of the glacier
13
Q
englacial
A
inside the glacier
14
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subglacial
A
underneath the glacier
15
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moulin
A
a deep verticale pipeline in the glacier
