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What are depressions left by melted blocks of ice in glacial deposits called?
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The depressions left behind are called kettles. The raised areas are called moraines.
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Depressions left by melted blocks of ice in glacial deposits?
The depressions left by melted blocks of ice in glacial deposits are called kettle holes. They are circular or oval-shaped depressions that form when large chunks of ice left behind by a retreating glacier become buried in sediment. When the ice eventually melts, it creates a hole in the ground.
Bowl shaped depressions in bedrock in upstream ends of alpine glacial valleys are called what?
Cirque
What types of deposits do you get with glaciers and wind?
Glacial deposits are called till. Wind deposits are referred to as aeolian deposits and include loess, dunes, and hills.
What are large deposits of boulders called?
The debris of boulders eroded and carried down by glaciers will eventually form moraines (mounds) where the front of the glacier melts and retreats, leaving the debris behind. Moraines can be high and wide enough to form a dam, behind which glacial melt water is trapped and lakes are formed.
What is an upward rebounding of a coastline due to the melting of glacial ice called?
Glacial isostasy.
Depressions left by melted blocks of ice in glacial deposits?
The depressions left by melted blocks of ice in glacial deposits are called kettle holes. They are circular or oval-shaped depressions that form when large chunks of ice left behind by a retreating glacier become buried in sediment. When the ice eventually melts, it creates a hole in the ground.
Large boulders left as glacial deposits are called what?
Erratic blocks or "erratics" for short.
Glacial deposits related to streams of water are called?
it will be D.outwash
Bowl shaped depressions in bedrock in upstream ends of alpine glacial valleys are called what?
Cirque
What types of deposits do you get with glaciers and wind?
Glacial deposits are called till. Wind deposits are referred to as aeolian deposits and include loess, dunes, and hills.
What are Sedimentary deposits that form in glacial lakes and show definite annual layers called?
They are called varves.
What are large deposits of boulders called?
The debris of boulders eroded and carried down by glaciers will eventually form moraines (mounds) where the front of the glacier melts and retreats, leaving the debris behind. Moraines can be high and wide enough to form a dam, behind which glacial melt water is trapped and lakes are formed.
A large hole left behind by glacier is what?
A large hole in the ground left from the melting of a huge chunk of glacial ice is called a kettle Also . . . Large bowl shaped depressions that occur at the head of mountain glaciers that result from a combination of frost wedging, glacial plucking, and abrasion are called cirques
Sediment left behind when a glacier melts is called?
Glacial drift.Glacial drift.
Which is a landscape feature created by glacial deposits?
horns, cirques, Ushaped valleys, and glacial lakes. Glacial erratics if your doing it for
What are depressions called?
it is called craters
What is the movement of glacial ice called?
[Glacial] flow
