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3. Scratches or grooves in a bedrock surface, caused by the grinding action
of a glacier and sediments.
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5. An amphitheater shaped basin at the head of a glaciated valley, made
by frost wedging/plucking.
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7. A fan shaped accumulation of sediment caused by the slowing down of
a river at a lake or sea.
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8. Finely textured glacial sediment produced by the grinding action of
a glacier (2 words).
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11. A thick, flowing mass of ice made from compacted, recrystallized snow
that originated on land.
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12. Main component of a glacier, which behaves as a flowing liquid when
overlying weight is great.
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14. Type of stream valley which appears cut-off by the moving glacial ice
sheet.
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15. Type of glacier confined to a mountain valley, which in most cases
was once a stream valley.
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17. General term for any type of glacial deposit.
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18. Descriptive term which attributes the action of a large, flowing ice
sheet.
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22. Ridges of glacial sediment left behind when the ice sheet melts.
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23. Fine-grained silt of glacial origin, made by wind erosion.
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24. A streamlined, asymmetrical hill composed of glacial till.
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26. Recrystallized snow, found in a glacier.
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27. Erosional feature caused by the seasonal melting of a glacier at the
margin of the ice sheet.
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30. The epoch of geologic history which encompasses the last 4 ice ages.
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31. A pyramid-like peak formed by the glacial action of 3 or more cirques
surrounding a mountain top.
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1. An "oddball" boulder that is not derived from the local bedrock, transported
by glaciers.
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2. A poorly-sorted glacial deposit.
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4. A type of glacial mountain valley that has been widened, deepened, and
straightened by the glacier.
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6. Type of glacial erosional feature which are holes made by lodged ice
chunks that later melted.
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9. A deep crack in the brittle surface of a glacier.
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10. Another name for alpine glacier.
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13. A steep-sided inlet of the sea, formed when a glacial trough was partially
submerged.
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15. The zone of the glacier where more snow falls than melts, and thereby
causes glacial flow.
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16. Fine-grained sediment found in abundance in glacial deposits.
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19. Sediment that has a diameter from 2 to 1/16 millimeters, found
in abundance in glacial deposits.
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20. The type of end moraine that marks the furthest advance of the glacier.
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21. Glacial ice that undergoes seasonal warming becomes - - - - - - - -
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25. Coarse-grained sediment commonly found in glacial deposits.
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28. The basic ingredient of a glacier.
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29. The slow movement of a glacier, caused by gravity.
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