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Glacial landforms are landforms created by the action of glaciers. Most of today's glacial landforms were created by the movement of large ice sheets during the Quaternary glaciations . Some areas, like Fennoscandia and the southern Andes , have extensive occurrences of glacial landforms; other areas, such as the Sahara , display rare and very ...
A cirque (French:; from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic: coire, meaning a pot or cauldron) [1] and cwm (Welsh for 'valley'; pronounced). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion. The concave ...
Cirque – An amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion; Col – Lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks; Crevasse – A deep crack, or fracture, in an ice sheet or glacier; Corrie – An amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion or cwm; Cove (mountain) – Small valley in the Appalachian Mountains between two ridge ...
Fluvio-glacial landforms and erosional surfaces include: outwash plains, kames, kame terraces, kettle holes, eskers, varves, and proglacial lakes. [4] Meltwater streams and formed by glaciers, especially in warmer seasons. Supra-glacial streams, those above the glacial surface, and subglacial streams, those beneath the glacial surface. [5]
Glacial erosion landforms are those landforms formed by the erosive action of glaciers. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Landforms created by glaciers ... Glacial erosion landforms (3 C, 17 P) Eskers (1 C, 7 P) L. ... Pages in category "Glacial landforms"
Drumlins and drumlin swarms are glacial landforms composed primarily of glacial till. They form near the margin of glacial systems, and within zones of fast flow deep within ice sheets, and are commonly found with other major glacially-formed features (including tunnel valleys, eskers, scours, and exposed bedrock erosion). [10]
U-shaped valleys, also called trough valleys or glacial troughs, are formed by the process of glaciation. They are characteristic of mountain glaciation in particular. [ 1 ] They have a characteristic U shape in cross-section, with steep, straight sides and a flat or rounded bottom (by contrast, valleys carved by rivers tend to be V-shaped in ...