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When sediments fall out a glaciers they create a deposit called?
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∙ 11y ago
There are actually two (2) types of deposits created - Glacial Tills or Fluvials/Outwashes.
- Tills are basically formed when the receding ice drops what it picked up in piles of debris fields. These can be located at the receding end of the glacier, but can also be formed underneath the glacier as it moves downhill.
- Fluvials are basically formed when the deposited debris is moved away from the receding glacier by water or wind to a different location sometimes far away from the glacier.
The rock content of the Glacial Tills and Fluvials can be left as anything from whole, big boulders or a pile of flour. Rock flour, that is.
Rock flour, also known as Glacier Meal, is the pulverized remains of all those boulders that the glacier grinds down into a fine powder as it heads "downstream." This powder can be extremely fine, down to .0006mm (that's almost seven times smaller than a human hair).
As the water from the melting ice and snow gathers into a stream, it often carries with it the rock flour turning the water a milky-white haze that's known as Glacier Milk. The glacial milk is swept away from the glacier until the flowing water slows enough for the fine, powdery rock flour to settle to the bottom of a pool, lake or even the ocean forming a fluvial.
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How did glaciers help form the earth's crust?
glaciers didnt help in formation of earth crust! if you mean how DO they then i would say that they create valleys or craters with their weight and deposit fresh sediments while frozen and also when they melt.
What glaciers create cirques on sides of mountains?
alpine glaciers
Is a glaciers a mager land form?
Glaciers are not major landforms because they aren't land. Glaciers do, however, create landforms
What landforms do glaciers create?
THey create chichks of glaich and loves of rods
Which volcanic hazard occurs when melted snow or excessive rain mixes with volcanic sediments?
This can create volcanic mudflows called lahars.
When sediments fall out of a glacier they create a deposit called what?
Drift and/or till.
How did glaciers help form the earth's crust?
glaciers didnt help in formation of earth crust! if you mean how DO they then i would say that they create valleys or craters with their weight and deposit fresh sediments while frozen and also when they melt.
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.
What glaciers create cirques on sides of mountains?
alpine glaciers
Why continental glaciers smooth the landscape and alpine glaciers create a rugged landscape?
beacause alpine glaciers are bad for the enviromental energy called phleux that makes chemicals interact with each other smoothing the landscape
What type of glaciers can create cirques on the side of mountains?
valley glaciers
Explain why continental glaciers smooth the landscape and alpine glaciers create a rugged landscape?
beacause alpine glaciers are bad for the enviromental energy called phleux that makes chemicals interact with each other smoothing the landscape
Is a glaciers a mager land form?
Glaciers are not major landforms because they aren't land. Glaciers do, however, create landforms
What landforms do glaciers create?
THey create chichks of glaich and loves of rods
Which volcanic hazard occurs when melted snow or excessive rain mixes with volcanic sediments?
This can create volcanic mudflows called lahars.
What the types of sediments that often create sedimentary rocks?
There are four types of sediments that create sedimentary rocks. The fours types of rocks are sandstone, mudrocks, biochemical and chemical.
How great lakes were create?
they made by glaciers melting
