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☆☆☆☆☆Wind carrying sand grains deposits the sand when the wind slows down or hits an obstacle.
cutting and polishing exposed rock surface
The two processes are abrasion and plucking.
What processes lead to glacial erosion? Describe them.
The two main processes that lead to glacial erosion are plucking and abrasion. Plucking is the process by which a glacier picks off rocks as it blocks over the land. The rock fragments freeze to the bottom of the glacier, gouging and scratching the bedrock as the glacier advances in the process of abrasion.
Thermal energy
Running Water
The 3 main types of glacial erosion are plucking, abrasion and freeze thaw.
During the ice ages, icy glaciers covered much of the continents.
chemical weathering..
barchan dunes
Nile river
Lowering the land.
longitudinal dunes
lateral moraine
Southeast
During the recent ice age, glaciers covered almost 30 percent of earths land.
The thick loess deposits in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa come from glacial sediments.
The boundaries of history of eras are marked by great worldwide changes in continental coastline
a wash
