Glacial Landforms

1. areas of deposited glacial till(rock and regolith of various sizes) which is left by a glacier in retreat, left behind as the melting drops the rock embeded in said glacier. can be hills or ground level areas

2. like the above but it marks a glacier's maximum extent.

3. a depression in an outwash plain left by chucks of ice calved off the glacier, surrounded by sediment and then melted. This leaves a depression where the ice used to be. often filled with meltwater or runoff. Since they are often shallow, they can fill with sediment over time and become bogs.

4. the build up of sediment along an stream internal to a glacier, creating a long relatively narrow and curving embankment. They can be several kilometers long and resemble a raised railroad right of way.

5. pile of glacial till and sand that accumulates inside the depression of a glacier and is then dropped en masse creating an irregularly shaped hill.

6. large pile of existing glacial till and sand that is shaped by glacial movement. They end up looking like a tear drop or half buried egg, and in areas where these are found there tend to tens to hundreds and they all point in roughly the same direction.

7. In an area that has been depressed by the weight of a glacier, and is slowly gains altitude as the weight disipates. this area is experiencing?

8. a body of water formed between the front of the glacier and the last #1 formed as the glacier retreats

9. a valley that is formed by a mountain glacier as it travels, creating a regular half circle pattern carried for great distances.

10. a place where a tributary glacier meets a larger heavier glacier, resulting, after retreat, in the smaller glacier's path opening higher up the side the #9. It ends up looking like someone cut away the rest of the path and showing the half circle cross section extremely well.

11. the location of a glacier's beginning. has an amphitheatre like apppearance.

12. the lake that can form at the bottom of #11 after the glacier is completely melted away.

13. An instance of #9 where the valley is deep enough that it is filled with ocean or sea water. Tends to be narrow and have deep sides.

14. the many threaded deposits left in a fan shape by the breided streams flowing out from under the front of a glacier as it melts.

15. large, sometimes multiton boulders and rocks left by themselves on the landscape that otherwise would not contain them.

16. grooves cut into bedrock by glaciers crawling over it. these have been recorded up to 400 feet long and up to 3 feet deep!