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What is The rock material deposited by glaciers as they melt and retreat?
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They are known as moraines.
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What is stratified drift?
STRATIFIED DRIFT-FLUVOGLACIAL DRIFT COMPOSED OF MATERIAL DEPOSITED BY A MELT WATER STREAM HEyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
When glaciers melt what landforms does it make?
Sea or
Does glaciers always melt from the sides first?
Not always but
How can glaciers cause disposition?
When glaciers move as they grow, they grind the ground and rock underneath them. These pieces are pushed forward while they grow. When they final begin to melt, the water that is in the glaciers flows out from underneath them. This often carried sand and small bits of gravel. As they melted further and faster, larger gravel and stones wash out. Finally very large rocks and boulders are left behind. All of these are called deposition.
Where is most of Earth's water location?
The answer would be the ice caps and glaciers. because when they melt then that produces more water.Also in oceans and in the form of gases.
Are kettles volcanic craters?
No. Kettles are associated with the retreat of glaciers. They form when blocks of ice break off the front of a retreating glacier. These blocks prevent sediment from being deposited underneath them, leaving behind depressions when they melt.
What are moraines made up of?
Moraine is the term used for the unsorted rock and material deposited by the melting and retreat of a glacier. So moraines are mainly rocky areas that used to be covered by a glacier.
Reasons for gradation of glaciers?
Being made of ice, glaciers retreat when the rate of melt exceeds the rate of growth. That is, of course, the simple answer. Scientists seem to agree that the retreat of glaciers is directly connected with global warming. It also appears that the process is accelerating inasmuch as surface water on glaciers remains unfrozen.
What is the material called that is deposited by melt-water beyond the end of a glacier?
outwash
How do glaciers retreat?
Glaciers retreat when the glacier melts more ice than is in input by snow.They cannot be anywhere near or in hot areas or they will melt.
What is stratified drift?
STRATIFIED DRIFT-FLUVOGLACIAL DRIFT COMPOSED OF MATERIAL DEPOSITED BY A MELT WATER STREAM HEyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
What weathering material leaves ridges of broken rock and soil?
Glaciers pick up rocks and soil as they move across land. When the glaciers melt, they deposit the rocks and soil. Today there are ridges of rocks and soil where glaciers once were.
What does glaciers melt?
Global warming
Can acidic water cause glaciers to melt?
Water can speed up the rate at which glaciers melt. Whether the water is acidic or not has no effect.
Why glaciers take many years to melt in sunlight?
glaciers are big and vary cold.
What do glaciers do that rivers dont?
Melt. Move
What will happen to glaciers if there is global warming?
they will melt
