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Why is Glacial melt water better for you?
All glaciers and icebergs are made of freshwater. Glacial melt water is better for you because it is freshwater, which is clean and pure unlike the water from some rivers or the sea which have to be filtered.
What percentage of water is ice caps and glaciers?
All the great rivers of Asia are fed by glacial melt and about 40% of the world relies on these rivers for drinking and other uses.
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 the term for all sediments of glacial origin?
Glacial Drift
What features indicates that many continents were once near Earths South Pole?
A) glacial deposits
What is the pH of glacial water melt?
7
What does a river usually flow down of?
Springs and glacial melt.
What percent of the people on the planet get their water from glacial melt water?
40%
What is the term for a river formed by glacial melt water?
Misfit Stream
What glacial features results from deposition?
A glacial deposit is known as a moraine. A moraine may form a dam, keeping back the glacial melt-water, forming a series of lakes.
Why is Glacial melt water better for you?
All glaciers and icebergs are made of freshwater. Glacial melt water is better for you because it is freshwater, which is clean and pure unlike the water from some rivers or the sea which have to be filtered.
A glacial deposit that is sorted and layered by streams or melt water is called?
a glacial deposit that is sorted and layered by streams or melted water is called
How did lakes in the us and Canada form?
Glacial melt water from the last ice age.
What percentage of water is ice caps and glaciers?
All the great rivers of Asia are fed by glacial melt and about 40% of the world relies on these rivers for drinking and other uses.
What features forms by glacial erosion?
Glacial erosion gouges 'U' shaped (cross-section) of valleys, and deposit moraine (mounds of the rocks and debris) as they melt.
What is a glacial melt?
The water melting from a glacier is called the glacier melt. This water often supplies the water for some of the great rivers of the world, like the Ganges and the Yangtsee.
Glacial water is what?
Glacial melt water is an expression sometimes used to name the water that results from the melting of a glacier. In some warmer weather conditions, a bit of melting can occur with the water slipping down through the glacier to run along the ground underneath.
