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SECTION 2. WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?. Explain the advance and retreat of glaciers and the main features resulting from the processes of erosion and deposition by glaciers. WHAT PROCESSES OCCUR?. WHAT ARE THE LANDFORMS?. Glaciers are always moving…. Glacier Long Profile.

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  1. SECTION 2 WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN? Explain the advance and retreat of glaciers and the main featuresresulting from the processes of erosionand depositionby glaciers. WHAT PROCESSES OCCUR? WHAT ARE THE LANDFORMS?

  2. Glaciers are always moving…

  3. Glacier Long Profile ACCUMULATION > ABLATION = ADVANCE ABLATION > ACCUMULATION = RETREAT ACCUMULATION = ABLATION = STEADY GLACIAL REGIMES ZONE OF EXCESS HIGH ALTITUDES GLACIAL MOVEMENT ZONE OF DEPLETION SNOUT

  4. ACCUMULATION (an input) As snow accumulates, it is buried under additional snow and becomes compacted. As this occurs, air is squeezed out, and the snow becomes ice. Snowflakes: 5% water; 95% air. Granular Snow: 50%; 50%. Firn: 75%; 25%. Glacier Ice: 80-95%; 5-20%.

  5. ABLATION (an output) Change in state from solid to liquid as a result of heat through sunlight and friction. • MELTING- • EVAPORATION- • CALVING- • WIND EROSION- • AVALANCHE- Change in state from liquid to a gas / vapour as a result of heating by sunlight. A glacier with a terminus that ends in a body of water (river, lake, ocean) into which it breaks up into icebergs. The movement of material by the wind from the lifting power of moving air. A rapid flow of snow, ice and meltwater that has become destabilised on the mountainside.

  6. GLACIAL EROSION Plucking is when melt water from a glacier freezes around lumps of cracked and broken rock. When the ice moves downhill, rock is plucked from the back wall. Abrasionis when rock frozen to the base and the back of the glacier scrapes the bed rock. Freeze-thawis when melt water or rain gets into cracks in the bed rock, usually the back wall. At night the water freezes, expands and causes the crack to get larger. Eventually the rock will break away.

  7. LANDFORMS OF GLACIAL EROSION USE THE HANDOUTS AND IMAGES TO DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN THE FORMATION OF THESE LANDFORMS OF EROSION. CIRQUE ARETES HORN (aka PYRAMIDAL PEAK) BERGSCHRUND HANGING VALLEY

  8. LANDFORMS OF GLACIAL DEPOSITION P174-175 • MEDIAL MORAINES • LATERAL MORAINES • END (TERMINAL) MORAINES • ERRATICS • DRUMLINS TILL

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