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Strukturer Flashcards

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What is an erratic block?

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A block that does not correspond/match the surrounding bedrock. It has been moved there by a glacier

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What characterises an erratic block?

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It differs from the surrounding bedrock.
It is often striated (needs to be large(?))

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What are the erosional forms/structures?

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Striae
Crescentic marks
Grooves
Potholes
Roches moutonneés
Crag-and-tails
Drumlins
MSGL
Flutings
Glacial valleys
Tunnel valleys

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What is striae?

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An erosional form, made by abrasion. It is elongated scratches parallel to ice movement

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What kinds of stripes are there?

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  1. Simple striae
    - Movement underneath the ice
    - can show ice movement changes
  2. Wedge-shaped and nailhead striae
    - carved down
    - dragging line with final impact spot
    - show flow direct
  3. Rat-tail striae
    - positive ridge
    - had something in front to protect from erosion
    - show flow direction
  4. Polished surfaces
    - grinding by silt(?)
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What are crescentic marks?

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Marks on boulders or bedrock from impact. Can show ice direction

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How does crescentic marks show ice flow direction?

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It will show a “steep” and deep ish end and a more flat end. The direction is from the flat to the deep cut end.

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What are grooves and how are they made?

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They are linear depressions or channels.
Made from direct glacial and Meltwater erosion - enhancing each other

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What are potholes?

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Deep holes in the bedrock.
Probably made from meltwater systems close to the ice margin. Has big blocks at the bottom, that was used as grinding material

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What forms Roches moutonneés and what does it look like?

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Formed by the ice moving over it, smoothing one side and plucking/quarrying on the other by the freezing of water.
Flow direction from smooth to rough

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What does crag-and-tails consist of?

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A high point bedrock (hard?) with a “tail” of till behind.
Flow direction from high point to low point (the tail)

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What is drumlins?

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An erosional and depositional structure.
Often made by till, in an elongated ‘drop’ shape, showing the flow direction from wide to thin

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What characterises flutings?

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They are long, small (<1m in height) forms, with an initial boulder at the end - hindered the erosion behind it

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What is MSGLs?

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Big structures parallel with flow direction of the ice

Kinda like gigantic drumlins.

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What are the characteristics of glaciated valleys?

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They are U-shaped
There is erosion on the bottom and the flanks

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What are tunnel valleys and how are they made?

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They are channels made from subglacial meltwater drainage. Carved in soft rocks and indicates a huge amount of water

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What is the evidence for tunnel valleys to be glacial and not from ex. rivers?

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  • They go up and down in typography in a way rivers can’t.
  • they start and end in seemingly nowhere
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18
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What depositional structures are there?

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(till)
(drumlins)
Kames
Kame terraces
Eskers
Crevasse fillings
End/terminal moraines
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Braided streams
Boulders?

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What are Kames, and what do they consist of?

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Ice contact deposit.

Hills consisting of clay, silt, sand and some gravel and till.
Fining upwards - decreasing water flow velocity

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20
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How are Kames created?

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Deposition from meltwater and later geomorphological inversion.

Deposition between deadice blocks. When melted it will create normal faults at the edge, when falling down

21
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What are kame terraces?

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A stair-like depositional meltwater formation. Consist of sand and gravel, maybe till inclusions

22
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How are Kame terraces created?

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Created by deposition of meltwater, between typography and deadice. Melting of the ice in several phases can give several terraces

23
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What are eskers?

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Meltwater deposit. Seen as long narrow ridges, that can be discontinuous.
Consist of poorly sorted sand and gravel. Fining upwards

24
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How and where are eskers formed?

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By deposition, filling glacial channels.
They can be made either subglacial, englacial or subraglacial

25
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What is the different kinds of eksers/esker processes?

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Subglacial:
- R-channel - filling out a channel, later material from the ice will cover it
- N-channel - same as R-channel but the water carved it down into the substratum

Englacial:
- filling out channel inside glacier, material from glacier part above will later cover it

Subraglacial:
- fill out channel on the surface, fall down after melting and not covered

26
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What is a difference between eksers and tunnel valleys?

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Eskers is made on hard bedrock
Tunnel valleys are made on soft bedrock

27
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What are crevasse fillings?

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Meltwater deposit. Short low ridges of unsorted debris.

28
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How and where are crevasse fillings made?

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Sub- or subraglacial, where debris/sediment accumulated in crevasses

29
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What are end moraines?

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Meltwater deposit.
Long linear ridges consisting of poorly sorted gravel, sand, till, and a little amount of fine grained material.
Marks a hold of an ice sheet

30
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How are end moraines made?

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By meltwater deposition of material carried or pushed by the glacier, under a larger hold of the ice advance

31
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What is the difference between end and terminal moraines?

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They are largely the same except a terminal moraine is the maximum extent/hold of the ice advance.

Terminal = end
End ≠ terminal

32
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What would be expected from proglacial deposits (braided streams)?

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  • decresing grain size down-flow
  • increasing sorting down-flow
  • daily/seasonal changes (facies changes, erosional unconformities)
  • vertical trends (ice advance/retreat sequences)
33
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What does big boulder deposits indicate?

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  • dramatic meltwater release event
  • it’s close to ice margin
34
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If there is only space between big boulders (no matrix), what does this indicate?

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A high deposition until the end.
The small grains were carried away after when the velocity was too low to carry the big ones.

35
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What landscapes/structures does the periglacial zone create?

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Cryoplanation
(- congelifracts
- frost cracked stones)
Rock glaciers
Cryotutbation
Solifluction
Frost fissures and ice wedges
Patterned ground
Sorted polygons
Pingos
Palsas
Thufur
Growing stones

36
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What is cryoplanation?

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Formation of flat land surfaces

37
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What happens in the process of cryoplanation?

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Disintegration of rock into congelifracts. Fractured boulders by frost.
Creates (in situ) boulder fields, and vertical sorting.

38
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What are Rock glaciers?

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A toungeshaped mass of frozen debris (including ice - not like glacier).
Happens in permafrost conditions due to slow deformation of ice core.

39
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What is cryotutbation?

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A soil process, mixing and disturbing the layers due to freezing/thawing cycles.

40
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How does cryotutbation happen?

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Heterogeneous soils:
Different grain sizes and water content = different freezing rates -> different volume increase -> deformation

41
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What is solifluction and how does it happen?

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Slow creep of soil over permafrost.
Happens downslope, bc of high water saturation of the active layer (low shear strength)

42
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What are ice wedges?

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It is the presence of ice in a frost fissure, preventing the crack from closing and instead growing.

43
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What are the different types of ice wedges?

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Epigenic: several generations growing outwards, youngest in middle

Syngenetic: sediments on top, grows upwards, oldest at bottom

Anti-syngenetic: erosion, crack grows downwards, oldest at top/outwards

44
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How is patterned ground created?

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From ice wedges and freeze/thawing cycles, on horizontal surfaces

45
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What is sorted polygons?

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Rings of coarser grained material with fine grains in the middle

46
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What is a Pingo?

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A hill with ice at its core - will collapse after melting

47
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What are palsas?

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Very small hills (pingo-like structures) caused by uneven snow coverage, freezing soil inbetween (expands)

48
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What is Thufur?

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Smallest structure, small “bulges” of the ground in fine grained sediment (fields)

49
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What are growing stones?

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Rocks moving up from the soil due to freezing/thawing

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