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Glaciers can only form when?
Glaciers form when the rate of snow fall exceeds the rate of melting.
What year did glaciers start to form?
Volcanoes have been around since the formation of earth they are vents to relieve pressure from the earth's core.
What two types of glaciers are giant sheets of ice that cover large areas of land?
Continental glaciers form in large flat areas. They spread across entire continents and make flattened landscapes. :)
What effect do glaciers do on the drainage of the shield?
The scarping and gouging action of the ice created depressions in the bedrock. These depressions filled with water to form the hundreds of thousands of lakes that now dot the shield.
How was the land bridge formed?
Land bridges aren't actually formed, they are already there but covered by the sea. When a glacial period starts, the water evaporated from the oceans falls as snow on the land and then compacts as ice which does not melt. Continual removal of water from the oceans over thousands of years causes sea level to drop and exposes the "land bridges".
Large masses if water in frozen form are called?
Glaciers
How is iceberg form?
Icebergs are blocks of fresh-water ice that break off from glaciers and float out to sea. They are made from snow that has fallen hundreds or even thousands of years.
What landscape features do glaciers form?
Large crevasses, river/streams
How have glaciers helped form Long Island?
Glaciers have helped form Long Island in the sense that millions of years ago, the glaciers eroded the block of land that is now known as Long Island.
How are the 2 types of glaciers similar an how there different?
Valley glaciers form on high mountain valleys and are long and narrow. Continental glaciers covers much of a continent or large island.
What can continental glaciers form?
Glaciers can form U shaped valleys.
Do glaicers still form?
yes, but it takes over a hundred years for glaciers to form (its a very slow process)
How long does it take an intrusive rock to form?
Typically thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.
When can glaciers form?
Glaciers form when the rate of snow fall exceeds the rate of melting.
How long does it take for a cliff to form?
thousands of years
Glaciers can only form when?
Glaciers form when the rate of snow fall exceeds the rate of melting.
How many years dose it take for coal to form natrally?
thousands and thousands, there fossil fuels
