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Ch 15: Glaciers

Across
Accumulation of glacier till
Long (large) parallel scratches left behind by coarse sand, pebbles and sharp boulders
The lowest elevation where the snow pack becomes permanent
A process where galciers break off into the ocean and become icebergs
Large glaciers which move within valleys of mountain ranges
Glaciers that form most of a continent
Periods of time associated with global cooling
Large material such as boulders and large rocks transported into a moraine range by glaciers
Cone-shaped hills of stratified sand and gravel that form when streams flowing across the top of glaciers deposit their sediment at the ice front or into lakes
When glaciers melt, silt and soil deposits form long winding ridges
Down
Deposits that look like alluvial fans which form in the front of glaciers and form overlapping broad flat plains
Large smooth canoe-shaped hills which point in the direction of glacier movement
Large fissures and cracks which form in glaciers
Buried snow which has become compressed and recrystalized into a rough granular ice material
As a glacier moves, it smoothes the valley floor and carves the valley walls nearly vertical; resulting in a 'U'-shaped valey
Unsorted and unstratified rock material deposited by retreating glaciers
The end or trailing edge of a glacier
A semi-circular basin found at the head of a glacier valley and formed by a valley glacier
A glacier that is nearly 50,000km in area (Iceland, Spitsbergen or the Baffin Islands)
75% of Earth's stored fresh water is stored. A large mass of compacted snow and ice that moves under the force of gravity
Material deposited by glacial melt water