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What are the grooves and scratches left in a rock by a glacier called?
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What are the scratches left behind from glaciers called?
striations
The process in which fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and then are carried away when the glaciers are moved is called?
The process in which rock fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and are then carried away when the glacier moves is called plucking. After the last ice age, stranded ice blocks left behind by the continental glacier melted and formed kettles.
Boulder left behind by a retreating glacier?
A boulder left behind by a retreating glacier is known as an erratic. A glacier is a moving river of ice and snow.
How are glaciers made?
by water freezing into a block of ice called a glacier.
A large hole left behind by a glacier is called a(n)?
A hole in the ground left by a glacier is called a"kettle." Many of these form shallow lakes, as with the kettle lakes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario. This could also be called a cirque which is defined as a bowl-shaped, steep-walled mountain basin carved by glaciation, often containing a small, round lake. Cirque lake is a phrase used to describe these kinds of lakes.
What are glacier scratches?
These marks are called striae and are the parallel marks left on the bedrock when rocks entrained in the glacier scrape along the glacier's base..These are part of the origin of the features called moutonne roches = rock sheep. Which were NOT your usual merino, but were the nick name given to judges wigs, which, when lying on the bench, had similarities with the geological features; the shape being similar, and the striae resembling the marks left on the rock. At least according to some authorities such as Holmes.
A large boulder that is left behind by a glacier is called a what?
it is called an Erratic
What are the scratches left behind from glaciers called?
striations
What are the soil and rocks left behind by a glacier called?
Glacial drift.
A smooth egg shaped left behind by a glacier is called a?
drumlin
What is an isolated boulder left by a glacier called?
It's called an erratic. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic.
What is the original part of the bore left after rifling?
When rifled, the rifling tool cuts the GROOVES. Material left between the grooves is the LANDS.
How would you put glacier in a sentence?
She gave me her glacier eyes, so I left. The glacier is melting.
Boulder left behind by a retreating glacier?
A boulder left behind by a retreating glacier is known as an erratic. A glacier is a moving river of ice and snow.
The process in which fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and then are carried away when the glaciers are moved is called?
The process in which rock fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and are then carried away when the glacier moves is called plucking. After the last ice age, stranded ice blocks left behind by the continental glacier melted and formed kettles.
A large boulder that is left behind by a glacier and deposited among rocks of a different type is called a?
Erratic
What is a large Boulder that is left behind by a glacier and deposited among rocks of a different type called?
Erratic
