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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
How did glaciers impact Minnesota?
They leave behind glacial lakes, striations, and river valleys creating the Minnesota landscape there is today.
How did continental ice sheets shape the landscape of the northwest highland?
The Northwest Highlands is an ancient eroded region of rugged hills and low mountains. During the last ice age, glaciers scoured the landscapes of Scandinavia and much of the British Isles. Glaciers carved fjords along Norway's coast. When the ice melted, the retreating glaciers left behind thin soils and thousands of lakes.
What do glaciers leave behind as the retreat?
As glaciers retreat, they leave behind deposits of rocks.
What is the meaning behind Rembrandt's Winter-Landscape?
A beautiful landscape - it is not a puzzle.
How were lakes formed in Scandinavian countries?
Because of the depressions that the glaciers left behind.
How did glaciers contribute to the formation of hills around the Lake Michigan?
As the glaciers retreated, they left rocks and boulders behind.
How did continental ice sheets shape the landscapes of the northwest highlands?
The Northwest Highlands is an ancient eroded region of rugged hills and low mountains. During the last ice age, glaciers scoured the landscapes of Scandinavia and much of the British Isles. Glaciers carved fjords along Norway's coast. When the ice melted, the retreating glaciers left behind thin soils and thousands of lakes.
What are the scratches left behind from glaciers called?
striations
What is the philosophy behind the dry landscape gardens of Japan?
Zen Buddhism
What are moraines and drumlins created by?
When glaciers advance or retreat, the sediments left behind create a moraine. Drumlins are created by the flow of glaciers that mold sediment into streamlined, elongated hills.
How does a rock from the seabed end up in areas with no beaches?
Possibly from continental drift or maybe glaciers transported them during the ice age. You can find sea shells in wyoming as high as the continental divide. Maybe at one time those mountains were actually below sea level and continetal drift pushed them way above sea level but left some sea life behind.
