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A glacier will begin to flow when it reaches what critical thickness?
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∙ 10y ago
Slope and temperature play a very important role here, the steeper the slope and the higher the temperature, the easier the glacies flows. That being said, a glacier typically starts to flow when it reaches a thickness of between say 50 and 200 meters, depending on slope and temperature. The speed at which it flows is then several meters per year to several tens of meters per year, again depending on slope and temperature.
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You need the snow to begin making a glacier.
When does gravity begin to pull a glacier downhill?
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Which came first the snowfield or the glacier?
You need the snow to begin making a glacier.
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heat
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In the Himalayan mountains, from the Gangotri glacier.
What could begin after a glacier melts?
the great lakes or just lakse
When does gravity begin to pull a glacier downhill?
When the weight of snow and ice is great enough the glacier starts moving downhill under the influence of gravity. This point is determined by the relationship between accumulation and wastage of the glacier.
Clouds begin to form when water vapor in the air reaches the correct?
Clouds begin to form when water vapor reaches the correct: altitude, dew point, and temperature.
An area where a glacier has just melted away will begin the process of what?
I think its primary succession
What does water begin to do when its temperature reaches the dew point?
condense
When does the snow and ice that make up glacier begin to move downhill?
Once snow and ice reach more than 30 to 40 meters gravity begins to pull the glacier downhill.I hope I helped you!!! =)
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