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Glaciers
Glaciers are large, dynamic bodies of ice that form over long periods of time when snow accumulation exceeds ice ablation. They are among the most significant forces shaping Earth's landscape over long time scales. Glaciers are currently found at Earth's poles and in mid-latitude and equatorial mountains.
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How do glaciers tear down or build up earths surface?
The some times make kettle lakes and deposit till
Why does India have glaciers that are over 240 years old if it is located at the equator?
India is not at the equator, though it is located at a latitude generally associated with warm climate. The glaciers of India are in the Himalayas, the tallest mountain range in the world. No matter the latitude, it is always cold at high elevation. Even at the equator, the air more than 5 kilometers above sea level is almost always below freezing. Temperatures in the Himalayas are certainly low enough to support the formation of glaciers.
What chunks of continental glaciers produce when they break off of the edge of ice sheets?
Floating Icebergs
Why are glaciers changing in size?
Seasonal change of glaciers size in North and South pole is due to seasonal temperature variation. In winter (earth tilted away from sun), temperature drop and ice accumulated up and vice versa when the summer come (earth tilted toward the sun) temperature increase and ice melted.
Now global warming is melting glaciers all over the world, and they are getting smaller.
Glaciers carved basins that filled with water to form lakes?
No, glaciers form from snow that falls high in the mountains then consolidates and refreezes into ice under the weight of later snows. This ice and snow then flows down the mountains into valleys producing a characteristic U-shaped erosion pattern in those valleys.
How did the glaciers affect the type of soil in the Midwest?
the soil became very wet and slushy when the glaciers melted
What does the geological feature kame represent?
A kame is a geological feature which means an unusual shaped mound or hill. It consists of sand, till or gravel. It is created in a depression on a retreating glacier and is then left on the land surface.
Do glaciers cover 70 percent of earths land?
No. Only a fairly small percentage of Earth's land is covered by glaciers. However, about 75% of the surface is covered by water.
What are two major types of glaciers and where do they form?
- go and read your book you gusy are stupid read your book
What kind of glaciers are Antarctica and Alpine?
Antarctica is a continental glacier. Alpine glaciers are a different type of glacier.
Is most of eastern Brazil covered in a tundra or a glacier?
No, brazilian eastern is formed by Pantanal and Rain Forest.
There is no tundra biome in Brazil.
Why does the ocean gain acid when glaciers melt?
Melting glaciers are associated with elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and carbon dioxide dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, hence, the oceans become more acidic.
Can a glacier form small hills?
It can certainly reduce mountains in size, but it can also form small hummocks called moraines, of various types, which are deposits of the material it has eroded from the higher ground.
What is a depression left by a retreating glacier?
most people say that its called a moraine or it can be respiration but people or just say i prefer to called it a MORAINE. BY HG ;]
Why are boiler drums oval-shaped?
For added strength
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Actually, their basic shape is a cylinder, i.e. of circular, not elliptical, cross-section.
Where is most water in glaciers?
The most water in glaciers is in Antarctica where the polar bears rest they also show water coming from the ocean to the rocks.
