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Q: What are glacier grooves and striations?
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What is the name of the parallel scratches or grooves that mark something?

Striations


What are glacier grooves?

Striae.


Marked with parallel scratches or grooves?

i believe that you are talking about glacial striations


What is the process for the rocks dragged by glaciers produce grooves and scratches in bedrock?

striations


What erosional agent produces grooves and scratches?

A glacier produces grooves and scratches.


How Are Striations Formed?

When a Glacier moves over an area of soft or hard rock it may have smaller stones underneath it, these small stones scratch into the larger rock making the Striations. They show which direction the Glacier travelled in.


Landforms created by ice?

Glacier Grooves and Moraines


What are the grooves and scratches left in a rock by a glacier called?

Crevasses


What is the meaning of glacial grooves?

Furrows of glacial origin in bedrock that are deeper and wider than striations- Double S


The direction of movement of a glacier is best indicated by the?

alignment of grooves in bedrock


How are bullet striations created?

Where a bullet is pushed through the barrel of a rifled firearm, spiralgrooves cut into the inside of the barrel (rifling) cause the bullet to spin. This provides for better accuracy- and at the same time, makes marks (striations) on the bullet. A shotgun does not have those grooves, and does not produce striations on the projectile.


What are striations and how do they form?

When a Glacier moves over an area of soft or hard rock it may have smaller stones underneath it, these small stones scratch into the larger rock making the Striations. They show which direction the Glacier travelled in.