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How can glaciers erode rocks?
The glacier can carry rocks. The moving of the glacier.
Do glaciers melt rocks?
No. Rocks need to reach very high temperatures in order to melt. Glaciers, being made of ice, are cold. Glaciers do, however, grind rocks down into smaller pieces quite easily.
What carries the largest rocks glaciers or rivers?
Glaciers can because of their frozen state.
What weathering material leaves ridges of broken rock and soil?
Glaciers pick up rocks and soil as they move across land. When the glaciers melt, they deposit the rocks and soil. Today there are ridges of rocks and soil where glaciers once were.
Moraines carried in the bottom of glaciers?
Moraines carried at the bottom of glaciers are called basal or ground moraines. They consist of rocks, soil, and other debris that have been plucked and eroded by the moving glacier. Basal moraines are typically deposited at the glacier's terminus or along its path as the glacier retreats.
How wind and glaciers abrade rocks?
By rapid
Do glaciers have the smallest rocks in them?
They can. because, glaciers pick up sediment as they go along slowly.
Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land while picking up and carrying rocks and soil with them are?
These are glaciers. Glaciers are large bodies of ice that flow slowly over land, eroding the landscape and carrying rocks and soil with them as they move.
What is in glaciers that causes erosion?
water and rocks salts
How did rocks get to the Grand Canyon?
Water pushed them. Glaciers.
What do glaciers leave behind as the retreat?
As glaciers retreat, they leave behind deposits of rocks.
How did glaciers contribute to the formation of hills around the Lake Michigan?
As the glaciers retreated, they left rocks and boulders behind.
