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Why are glaciers like sand paper?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

The glacier is ice, the sand paper effect comes when the ice picks up sand, stones and boulders, as it moves forward. It the abrasion from this debris that gouged out 'U' shaped valleys, and scratched marks on surface rocks.

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