The rocks are frozen solid therefore there Sharp edges are not lost
Moraine is the word for rocks and boulders carried along by a glacier and then left behind.
conglomerate
Sedimentary Rocks
Weathering and erosion.
Moraine contain fragmented rocks.
A glacial erratic is a rock of any size that is released from a melting glacier. A glacial erratic can be identified because it differs from the rocks in its surrounding area.
Yes, When the glacier melts, all the rocks underneath are still there.....AnswerYes rocks melt out of Glaciers. The main types I can remember:Glacial till ( rocks left as an even bed )Erratics are large rocks (Boulder's) left scattered aboutLateral moraine's. These are drifts of rocks left where a stream has melted and cut a route through the glacier or the edges of where the glacier got to or whereTerminal Moraine is where a Glacier got to and stopped advancing or retreating for a time thus plowing up a big long narrow pile of rock.
Sedimentary rocks of weathered rock fragments are called clastic rocks.
an accumulation of boulders, stones, or other debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
The glacier can carry rocks. The moving of the glacier.
Moraines are the rocks, stones, pebbles, and fragments of rocks carried along at the base of glaciers. You can also see Moraines in the valleys left behind after the glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age.
Fragments of preexisting rocks.