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Boulders deposited by glacial ice
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Glacial Erratics
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Glaciers that form in mountains
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Alpin Glaciers
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Glacier covering a continent
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Continental Glacier
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Unsorted debris left behing by a glacier, containing all different sediment sizes
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Moraine
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A glacier made hill which can tell the direction of glacial movement
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Drumlins
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Long parallel scratches left on rocks and bedrock by glacial movement
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Striations
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Name of the last ice age
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Pleistocene Epoch
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Melting of snow and ice on a glacier
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Ablation
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Snow and Ice pileing up in a glacier
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Accumulation
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Glacial Valley filled with water that can show direction of glacial movement
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Finger Lakes
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Usorted sediments that are unlayered
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Till
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Sorted sediment s that are layered
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Outwash
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The rubbing of two sediments that erode another sediment
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Abrasion
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How do kettle lakes form?
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They form in large numbers in the kettle holes of moraines and outwash plains
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When a glacier advances there is more..
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Accumulation them ablation
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