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What is the loosening and lifting of blocks of rock by glaciers is called what?
The loosening and lifting of blocks of rock by glaciers is called glacial plucking. This process occurs when the glacier freezes onto the rock surface and then plucks or pulls the rock as it moves, resulting in the transportation of the rock along with the glacier.
What is the loosening and lifting of blocks of rock by glacier?
Plucking
What is the name of the glacier that has frozen to bedrock?
The name of a glacier that has frozen to bedrock is rock glacier. A rock glacier is formed by angular blocks of frozen rock that form in the valley of glaciers.
What type of glaciers are there and how do they erode the land?
glacial deposition and glacial erosion
Are glaciers rock coverd in snow?
No. Glaciers are slowly moving masses of ice.
What are thick masses of ice that erode rock and move sediment called?
These are glaciers.
How does glaciers and rivers form new rocks?
Glaciers and rivers transport eroded rock material (sediment), that can form new sedimentary rock after deposition.
Where do glaciers depost the earth and rock as they move forward and advance?
Glaciers often push earth and rock from beneath themselves as they move forward. Many natural lakes were formed by glaciers carving the earth as they passed.
What two forces that cause glaciers?
Ice and rock
How does wind and glacier abrade rock?
Wind and glaciers abrade rock with their brute force.
What term denotes blocks of older rock enclosed in a body of younger igneous rock?
Xenoliths are blocks of older rock enclosed in a body of younger igneous rock.
What can occur as glaciers remove loose pieces of rock or as dragged rock scratches rock underneath the glacier?
something.
