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Why do continental glaciers smooth the landscape and alpine glaciers create ragged landscape?
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∙ 13y ago
I only know that alpine glaciers can carve deep u-shaped valleys in the mountains.
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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
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
What glaciers create cirques on sides of mountains?
alpine glaciers
What are five landscapes features formed by alpine glaciers?
The bottom of alpine glaciers are rugged or rough, so they create a rugged landscape. They move because when the bottom of them melt, the water produced allows it to slide. (they typically move downhill) From a science book "Earth's Changing Surface" by Holt Science & Technology.
How are continental glaciers and alpine glaciers similar?
Both are made of compacted snow which recrystallizes into solid ice.They both make Striates or Grooves, shaping the landscape they move over.Both originate in high regions where the snowfall exceeds the amount of melt. This is called the zone of accumulation.Both are pulled down slopes with Gravity, as the immense weight of accumulated snow and ice can no longer support its own weight, and begins to flow outward.Both are an agent of Erosion as the flow of ice pushes, plucks and carries material from one place to another place.Both weather rock surfaces by reducing the size of the rock formations they flow over; this is due to abrasion, plucking and grinding of rock.Both carry Sediments and deposit them somewhere else.Both create Morraines, or accumulations of soil and rock where the glacier reaches its furthest point of advance in any direction.
What type of glaciers can create cirques on the side of mountains?
valley 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
How great lakes were create?
they made by glaciers melting
Can a cyclone create continental drift?
No; continental drift is a geological process.
What creates a continental rise?
Turbidity currents create continental rises.
What did the second continental congress agree to create in 1775?
the continental army
