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Glaciers carved basins that filled with water to form lakes?
No, glaciers form from snow that falls high in the mountains then consolidates and refreezes into ice under the weight of later snows. This ice and snow then flows down the mountains into valleys producing a characteristic U-shaped erosion pattern in those valleys.
Are glaciers carved basins that filled with water to form lakes?
No, glaciers form from snow that falls high in the mountains then consolidates and refreezes into ice under the weight of later snows. This ice and snow then flows down the mountains into valleys producing a characteristic U-shaped erosion pattern in those valleys.
Which are lowlands that were eroded by glaciers and transformed into wide deep basins?
The Great Lakes & Your Welcome :)
What are facts about glaciers?
Here are some facts about glaciers......Glaciers are big masses of ice left over from the ice ageWhen a glacier moves it cuts a basin into the Earth. For example, the basins of the 5 Great Lakes were carved by an advancing and receeding glacier over millions of years.They have been around for millions of yearsSome glaciers can move up to a foot a day that's mile a year
What region has hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers?
candian shild has old eroded mountantins .
Did glaciers carve basins that filled with water to create lakes?
yes
What were the great lakes carved by?
The Malaspina Glacier carved the Great Lakes.
What carved out the lakes in NY state?
Glaciers.
What carved out many of Canada lakes?
Glaciers.
Glaciers carved basins that filled with water to form lakes?
No, glaciers form from snow that falls high in the mountains then consolidates and refreezes into ice under the weight of later snows. This ice and snow then flows down the mountains into valleys producing a characteristic U-shaped erosion pattern in those valleys.
Are glaciers carved basins that filled with water to form lakes?
No, glaciers form from snow that falls high in the mountains then consolidates and refreezes into ice under the weight of later snows. This ice and snow then flows down the mountains into valleys producing a characteristic U-shaped erosion pattern in those valleys.
Where will you find cirque lakes?
in mountain basins which have had valley glaciers
How did glaciers effect the physical landscape of Canada?
Glaciers made basins and when the glaciers melted it left lots of lakes.
How did glacial ice the north America landscape?
The Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes were carved by ice glaciation in the valleys. Lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin were gouged out by glaciers and later filled with water from melting glaciers. Niagara falls was formed when the glaciers created dams on the rivers and changed the flow.
What is the name of the western New York lakes that were carved by glaciers?
the Finger Lakes
What causes large low basins with many rivers and lakes?
Glaciers
Does the Canadian shield have hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers?
yes, it does
