Alpine Glaciation Flashcards

Mountainous areas at the headwaters of stream tributaries.

Erode, transport, and deposit eroded material.

An area where snow accumulates to a great thickness.

<p>The area where eroded material is deposited.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Work on glacier floor and valley sides causing a sand-paper effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When loose material falls from valley sides onto glacier edges.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a glacier freezes onto rock and pulls it away as it moves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Downhill movement of ice that pivots like a spinning top.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Snow collects in hollows, and freeze-thaw action disintegrates rocks, enlarging the hollow.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A glacially eroded rock basin with a steep head wall and steep sides.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sharpened peak of a mountain formed by glacial erosion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sharp ridge that forms between two glacial cirques.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Former narrow V-shaped valleys deepened by glacial erosion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A narrow valley or inlet originally carved out by a glacier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Results from a main glacier eroding at a different rate than its tributary glaciers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blunt-ended ridges of rock jutting from the side of a glacial trough.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mass of more resistant rock smoothed by glacier movement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A jagged mountain peak that protrudes above a glacier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A small mountain lake formed by melting glaciers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area where additions of snow exceed losses of ice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area where losses of ice exceed additions of snow.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eroded material is transported within and on top of glaciers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A series of parallel scratches and grooves created by glaciers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A landform that develops when debris carried by a glacier is deposited.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A ridge of till along the edge of a valley glacier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A lateral moraine covered with snow that becomes a ground moraine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Marks the maximum limit of a glacier lobe or snout.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A linear accumulation of material extending down the center of a glacier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Marks a recessional phase in the decline of a glacier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sediment formed in a glacial lake.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Boulders picked up and carried by ice over long distances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Meltwater trapped by ice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deposits formed by meltwater streams from a glacier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area where meltwater streams deposit material ahead of a glacier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A conical shaped pile of sand and gravel formed in ice depressions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>The collective name for all glacial deposits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Till and fluvioglacial material.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Larger masses of ice that move down former river courses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formed when valley glaciers extend onto lowland areas.</p> Signup and view all the answers