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Chapter 17
Glaciers
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1. Glacier
A large mass of moving ice.
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2. Alpine Glacier a narrow, wedge-shaped mass of ice that forms in a mountainous region and that is confined to a small area by surrounding topography; examples include valley glaciers, cirque glaciers, and piedmont glaciers.
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3. Continental Glaciersmassive sheet of ice that may cover millions of square kilometers, that may be thousands of meters thick, and that is not confined by surrounding topography.
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4. Basal Slipprocess that causes the ice at the base of a glacier to melt and the glacier to slide.
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5. Internal Plastic Flow
the process by which glaciers flow slowly as grains of ice deform under pressure and slide over each other.
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6. Crevassein a glacier, a large crack or fissure that results from ice movement.
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7. Cirquea deep and steep bowl-like depression produced by glacial erosion.
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8. Arete
a sharp, jagged ridge that forms between cirques.
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9. Horn a sharp, pyramid-like peak that forms because of the erosion of cirques.
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10. Erratic
a large rock transported from a distant source by a glacier.
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11. Glacial Drift
rock material carried and deposited by glaciers.
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12. Tillunsorted rock material that is deposited directly by a melting glacier.
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13. Morainea landform that is made from unsorted sediments deposited by a glacier.
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14. Kettlea bowl-like depression in a glacial drift deposit.
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15. Eskera long, winding ridge of gravel and coarse sand deposited by glacial melt water streams.
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16. Ice Age
a long period of climatic cooling during which the continents are glaciated repeatedly.
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17. Milankovitch Theorythe theory that cyclical changes in Earth’s orbit and in the tilt of earth’s axis occur over thousands of years and cause climatic changes.