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Glaciers move by extrusion flow. This involves two main processes; internal deformation and basal sliding.
Internal Deformation
Under the immense weight of overlying ice, individual ice crystals align into layers and slide over each other. (Much like the property of metal ions which leads to the characteristic of maleability).
Basal sliding
Meltwater (from pressure melting) lubricates the base of the glacier, which slides over the bedrock under the influence of gravity.
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Where do you find alpine glaciers?
The alpine glaciers are high in the mountains.
How do you describe the landscape made by alpine glaciers compared to the landscape by continental glaciers?
Alpine glaciers leave behind U-shaped valleys, deep, high-altitude lakes and cliffs. Continental glaciers flow outwards scraping the landscape clean, making fairly flat lands and lakes
What kind of glaciers are Antarctica and Alpine?
Antarctica is a continental glacier. Alpine glaciers are a different type of glacier.
What glaciers create cirques on sides of mountains?
alpine glaciers
What is a type of Alpine glacier?
Valley Glaciers are a type of apline glaciers
How are glaciers different from alpine glaciers?
They difference between them is where there flow. Continental glaciers are enormous ice sheets, and are found in Greenland and Antarctica. Alpine glaciers form in mountain valleys.
What the 2 most common kinds of glaciers?
There are 2 main types of glaciers, Continental is one, they float away from central regions. The second is alpine or valley which are the glaciers that flow down the valley from the mountain.
Where do you find alpine glaciers?
The alpine glaciers are high in the mountains.
What are glaciers formed in mountains called?
Cirque glaciers.
What are the 2 types of glacier erosien?
Glaciers are ice sheets. There are 2 kinds of glaciers: alpine glaciers and continental glaciers. Alpine glaciers are formed when valleys above the snow line fill with ice and snow. Snow is compacted and gradually begins to flow downhill due to gravity. -Cham11
Alpine glaciers can be found on which landform?
Alpine glaciers are found in mountain valleys
How do you describe the landscape made by alpine glaciers compared to the landscape by continental glaciers?
Alpine glaciers leave behind U-shaped valleys, deep, high-altitude lakes and cliffs. Continental glaciers flow outwards scraping the landscape clean, making fairly flat lands and lakes
What kind of glaciers are Antarctica and Alpine?
Antarctica is a continental glacier. Alpine glaciers are a different type of glacier.
What glaciers create cirques on sides of mountains?
alpine glaciers
Where in Canada do you find alpine glaciers?
Why do continental glaciers smooth the landscape and alpine glaciers create ragged landscape?
I only know that alpine glaciers can carve deep u-shaped valleys in the mountains.
What is a type of Alpine glacier?
Valley Glaciers are a type of apline glaciers
