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Actually, when first advancing, a glacier will just over ride obstacles in front of it.
It will NOT bulldoze them. There are lots of good photos of this. Ask your tame glaciologist.
Eventually, when the glacier fully covers an obstacle, the rocks embedded in the glacier and those at the base, will grind away at the obstacle.
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Will plucking occur if a glacier is NOT advancing?
Yes, because glacial ice is still moving inside the glacier even if the glacier's front is not advancing.
What is it called when a melting glacier accumulates sand gravel and rock?
Plucking is the removal of pieces of rock from a bedrock face that is in contact with glacier ice.
How do you tell if a valley glacier is advancing or retreating?
You can tell if it's retreating if it slows it's speed in the glacier. You can tell if it's advancing if it increases in speed.
What is the name of the glacier that has frozen to bedrock?
The name of a glacier that has frozen to bedrock is rock glacier. A rock glacier is formed by angular blocks of frozen rock that form in the valley of glaciers.
Rocks at base of advancing glacier?
The embedded rocks grind away the bedrock beneath the glacier, leaving scratches, striae, on the rock. In doing this, they tend to round off the corners of all but the largest boulders, and produce huge quantities rock flour. The smaller rocks tend to polish the basement. If upstream there is a harder rock, such as volcanic or granite, then the bed will be more deeply excavated than if all the grind stones are homogeneous. The rocks enter deeply into the glacier at bergschrunds (crevasses at glacier edge), or through ordinary crevasses where the glacier goes over a step in its bed.
Which two spheres interact when a glacier erodes a rock?
Which two spheres interact when a glacier erodes rock
What is streams formed by melting ice when a valley glacier stops advancing called?
Esker
Is a glacier called a rock?
A glacier is a mass of frozen water, therefore it cannot be considered a rock.
What feature is the result of glacier carving out rock as it moves?
The feature that is the result of a glacier carving out rock as it moves is a roche moutonnees. It is a rock formation created by the passage of glacier ice. Or a terminal moraine
What feature is the result of a glacier carving it rock as it moves?
The feature that is the result of a glacier carving out rock as it moves is a roche moutonnees. It is a rock formation created by the passage of glacier ice. Or a terminal moraine
Which is faster the advance or the retreat of an ice sheet?
Glaciers are advancing and retreating all the time. During the summer most will be retreating, during the winter most will be advancing. Therefore the world is not in a 'glacial advance or retreat' because each glacier is independent.
The process in which a glacier loosens and picks up rock as it moves is called?
Plucking is the process in which a glacier freezes around cracked and broken rock and when it moves downhill, the rock is plucked from the back wall of the glacier.
