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What is glacier weathering?

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Ice erosion is caused by glaciers that move very slowly with the help of gravity. When the glaciers move they scrape at the rock. This scraping plows, files, and carries the removed sediment elsewhere.

The erosion caused when the glacier melts is considered water erosion.

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Ice Weathering is when water seeps into a rock. When it gets cold the water turns into ice and expands. It then creates a crack or even split the rock entirely.

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it is when ice is mixed with water

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Is glacier action chemical weathering or mechanical weathering?

Mechanical weathering for example freeze-thew process or abrasion.


How can you use the words glaciers and weathering in a sentence?

Wind and weathering can cause glacier erosion.


What type of weathering is a glacier?

it is when a glacier moves into a large rock mass, cutting its way through.


Which is a very slow type of erosion that moves rocks and soil is it a glacier a creep a landslide or weathering?

glacier


Why is freeze thaw weathering absoloutely vital if a glacier is going to be able to erode its valley?

Its to do with how it is able to form the glacier. There is a cylce where the ice can only cycle round and round if freeze thaw weathering is taking place, meaning that a glacier can erode its valley. The process of freeze thaw weathering erodes the valley.


What can affect the rate of weathering?

wind, water, waves, & glacier


How is a glacier a source of weathering and erosion?

glacier move at approximately 2 cm per day. even though that isn't much, glaciers constant;y take with them dirt and sediments from the ground, eroding it. this could also be weathering.


What are the rapid changes to earths surface?

eroison weathering landslides valcano earthquakes floods glacier


How can a iceberg create weathering?

As an iceberg - or glacier - moves across land, it will scrape against it, causing it to weather/erode the land.


What the shape of the surface of the land?

Water, Wind, Wave, and Glacier Erosion as well as Mass Movement (or Erosion, Deposition, and Weathering)


How was long island formed by glaciers?

weathering and erosion the glacier used abrasion and then all of the rocks would be taken away by erosion


Was long island formed by glaciers?

weathering and erosion the glacier used abrasion and then all of the rocks would be taken away by erosion