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How do alpine glaciers form?
Alpine glaciers form when snow accumulates in a mountain valley and compacts over time into ice. The weight of the ice causes it to flow downhill, carving out the valley and creating a glacier. Cold temperatures and consistent snowfall are necessary to sustain an alpine glacier.
What kind of glaciers form when ice and snow build up in a mountain valley?
Valley glaciers form when ice and snow accumulate in a mountain valley due to the accumulation of snow exceeding the rate of melting. Over time, the ice flows downhill, shaping the valley and creating a distinct U-shaped profile.
Is it possible to build a house on a limestone mountain?
Yes.
A mountain that forms when layers of lava and ash erupt and build up is a .?
a volcano
How are glaciers made?
Glaciers are formed when snow accumulates and compresses over time, turning into dense ice. This process occurs in areas where more snow falls in the winter than melts in the summer, causing the snow to build up and transform into glacier ice. The weight of the ice causes it to flow downhill, slowly forming a glacier.
What forms when ice and snow build up in a mountain valley?
valley glacier
Glacier formed long smooth hills?
These long smooth hills are known as drumlins, which are created by the movement of glaciers during the process of glaciation. As a glacier advances, it reshapes the landscape by depositing and sculpting materials, forming these distinctive elongated landforms. Drumlins are typically found in regions that were once covered by ice sheets during the last Ice Age.
How do alpine glaciers form?
Alpine glaciers form when snow accumulates in a mountain valley and compacts over time into ice. The weight of the ice causes it to flow downhill, carving out the valley and creating a glacier. Cold temperatures and consistent snowfall are necessary to sustain an alpine glacier.
Which plate boundary is responsible for mountain building?
Convergent plate boundaries are responsible for mountain building. Continent-to-continent boundaries build mountains like the Himalayas. Continent-to-ocean boundaries build mountains like the Cascades. The difference is that continent-to-continent convergent boundaries do not produce volcanoes.
How do V-shaped valleyes form?
Forms when snow and ice build up in a mountain valley.
What kind of glaciers form when ice and snow build up in a mountain valley?
Valley glaciers form when ice and snow accumulate in a mountain valley due to the accumulation of snow exceeding the rate of melting. Over time, the ice flows downhill, shaping the valley and creating a distinct U-shaped profile.
Why are there no Piedmont glaciers to be fond in Anchorage Alaska?
The geography of the Anchroage area won't support a Piedmont glacier. This glacier (the Piedmont glacier) is characterized by large stagnant ice sheets where a glacier or glaciers "doesn't/don't have anywhere to go" for lack of an outlet. All the areas around Anchroage, Alaska slope down to the sea. There is no place for the ice of a Piedmont glacier to "build up" for lack of a way to "break out" or to "get stopped" to form this glacier.
What landform can a glacier build up?
A glacier builds up a moraine in front of it as it pushes dirt and rock ahead of it.
What is the front of a glacier called?
The front of a glacier is called the terminus or terminus face. This is where the glacier ends and may be characterized by ice cliffs or a build-up of glacial debris.
How long did it take to build the Valley Forge memorial chapel?
the valley of the kings took 500 years to build.
How is a glacier made?
well a glacier is formed when layers of ice build up over hundreds of years and form a large compact block of ice.
Who built Everest mountain?
u can't build a mountain
