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What happens when soil and rocks are added to the sides and bottom of a glacier after water freezes and thaws in the surrounding rock?
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In a process called blank a glacier scours the bedrock as it moves?
Abrasion. Stones and rocks are picked up by the glacier and make their way to the bottom of the ice flow where they scour the bedrock as it moves.
What force moves a glacier downhill?
Glaciers can slide down slope for several reasons. First, a glacier is made of ice, which is frozen water. Liquid water is slippery. That is important to remember. Second, gravity is pulling on them making them want to move downhill. Third, when ice is put under a lot of pressure, it can melt. The pressure above the bottom of the glacier can cause some melting on the bottom layer. That can make the glacier slide. Fourth, the sun shining on the top of the glacier can make the top of the glacier melt. The water from that melting can go to the bottom of the glacier and help lubricate the bottom. That can help it slide. Mountain glaciers are always sliding downhill. Snow replenishes glaciers and adds ice to the top. If glaciers melt faster than they are replenished they vanish. Some mountain glaciers have vanished within the last 100 years. A few more are likely to vanish in the next decade.
Is a glacier a solid or liquid?
A glacier is a essentially a large block of ice, but it isn't truly solid. The bottom of the glacier is in a constant state of melt. This is what allows it to "migrate." Additionally, there are lakes and rivers inside of most glaciers.
How are glacial troughs formed?
A glacier trough is also known as a U-shaped valley and is formed when a glacier passes through it. The glacier erodes the bottom of the valley through abrasion, and the sides of the valley through freeze-thaw weathering. It wears away the softer rock but when it gets to the harder, tougher rock it can't erode it to give the glacial trough its shape. Hope this helps!
What is a glacial groove?
The glacier abrades the bedrock and the material is carried by ice. The groove is scoured in the bedrock by the boulders carried at the bottom of the ice. Grooves have various sizes.
What happens when the top layers of a glacier move faster then the bottom layers?
you are so stupid
What happens when ther top layers of a glacier moves faster then the bottom llayers?
you are so stupid
Is the side and the bottom of a glacier weigh the least?
bottom is the heaviest
Where is debris found on a glacier?
Bottom and side?
What moraines are abrasive elements carried bottom of a frozen glacier?
Ground Moraines are abrasive elements that are carried in the bottom of a frozen glacier. Lateral Moraines are unsorted material deposited along the side of a valley glacier.
Moraines carried in the bottom of glaciers?
ummm... what are you asking? Yes they are on the bottom of a glacier.
How can ice affect rocks?
The answer is...
As the depth of a glacier increases is there more pressure on the bottom leading to more heat?
I think the depth of a glacier depends on it height
The process in which fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and then are carried away when the glaciers are moved is called?
The process in which rock fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and are then carried away when the glacier moves is called plucking. After the last ice age, stranded ice blocks left behind by the continental glacier melted and formed kettles.
What Moraines that are abrasive elements carried in the bottom of a frozen glacier?
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What happens if the whole pond freezes will fish die?
If the water freezes but the pond is deep enough for the fish to still be in water at the bottom there is a good chance they will survive. If all of the water freezes however and the fish become frozen solid then I'm afraid they are unlikely to survive.
What process is it when Rock fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and are then carried away when the glacier moves?
The process in which rock fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and are then carried away when the glacier moves is called plucking. After the last ice age, stranded ice blocks left behind by the continental glacier melted and formed kettles.
