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Glacier

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Compressed snow. Ranging from 1km to the scale of Antarctica

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Glaciated landscape

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A landscape that has features to form a glacier. These can be active or a relic landscape

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Ablation

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Loss of mass- ice

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Accumulation

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More mass- ice

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Zone of accumulation

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Greater amounts of accumulation than ablation

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Zone of ablation

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Greater amounts of ablation than accumulation

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Equilibrium line

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Separates the 2 zones of accumulation and ablation

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Glacial mass balance

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Difference between the amount of snow and ice accumulation and the amount of ablation occurring in a glacier over a year

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System

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Set of interrelated elements comprising of components (stores) and processes (links) that are connected together

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Pressure melting point

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Refers to the temperature at which ice is at the verge of melting

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Basal sliding

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Sliding of glacier over bedrock

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Regelation (or creep)

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The base of the ice meets a rock outcrop on the valley floor the ice may flow around it

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Intergranular slip

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Weight of ice can result in ice crystals changing shape due to compaction. Ice crystals become flattened and slide over each other

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Laminar flow

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Ice flow in layers

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Rigid zone

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Upper zone of thew glacier where the ice is brittle and breaks

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Plastic zone

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Lower zone of the glacier where the under the pressure the ice deforms

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Freeze thaw

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Process of weathering caused by water, confined in rock joints, expanding as it freezes

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Plucking

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Rocks and stones become frozen to the base or sides of glacier and are plucked from the ground

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Abrasion

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Process of erosion whereby stones and rocks become embedded in the base and sides of the glacier

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Opened system

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Matter and energy can be transferred

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Corrie

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Armchair shaped hollow found on upland hills or mountains

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Geomorphic processes

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Natural mechanisms of weathering, mass movement, erosion, transportation and deposition

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Weathering

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Breakdown of rocks

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Erosion

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Wearing away or removal of rock

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Physical weathering
Breakdown of rock by physical processes
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Chemical weathering
The decay of rocks as a result of chemical weathering
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Biological weathering
May consist of physical actions such as growth of plant roots
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Oxidation
Minerals in rocks react with oxygen, either in the air or in water.
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Frost shattering
Extremely low temperatures water trapped in rock pores freezes and expands
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Solution
Mineral dissolves in water
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Hydration
Water molecules added to rock minerals create new minerals of a larger volume
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Tree roots
Tree roots grows into cracks or joints in rocks and exert outward pressure
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Carbonation
Rainwater combines with dissolved carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to produce a weak carbonic acid
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Organic acids
Produced during decomposition of plant and animal litter
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Hydrolysis
Chemical reaction between rock minerals and water
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Pressure release
The weight of the overlying ice in a glacier is lost due to melting
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Supraglacial debris
Carried on the surface of a glacier. Comes forms weathering and mass movement
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Englacial debris
Carried within the glacier. Comes from surface debris which has fallen down a crevasse
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Subglacial debris
Transported at the base of the debris. Comes mainly from plucking and abrasion
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Glacial till
Material deposited directly by the ice
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Glacio-fluvial material
Deposited by meltwater
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Lodgement till
Material deposited at the base of advancing glaciers due to basal melting
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Ablation till
Material deposited as the ice melts away from retreating glaciers
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Angular or sub-angular
In shape
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Unsorted material
Large fragments and small debris
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Unstratified
No sign of layering
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No orientation
Rock fragments are no aligned in the same direction
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Ribbon lake
A long narrow, finger-shaped lake, usually found in a glacial trough
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Rock Bar
A rid or outcrop of rock either side of rock basin variations
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Rock Basin
An over deepened section of the floor of the glacial trough
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Rock Flour
Very fine material produced by abrasion
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Rochee Moutonnee
A mass of resistant rock on the floor of a glacial trough which is smooth and rounded on the stoss (or up the valley side)- often with striation marks showing direction of ice movement
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Striation
Scratches or gouges cut into the bedorck by glacial abrasion
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Till
material deposited directly by the ice
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Pyramidal peak
an angular, sharply pointed mountain top sometimes described as a horn shaped summit
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Nivation
is a glacial process that is not easily classified as erosion or weathering
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Arete
a narrow, steep sided ridge often called a knife edge ridge
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Corrie
Is an arm-chair shaped hollow found on the upland hills or mountain sides. They have a steep back wall, an over-deepened basin and a rock lip at the front
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Hanging valley
A smaller tributary valley to the side of the main glacial trough, left 'hanging' above the main u-shaped val;ley. A waterfall can be seen
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Mass movement
Is the down slope transportation of material under gravity
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Glacial trough
A u-shaped valley with steep, straight sides and a flat rounded bottom, carved out from a glacier
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Geomorphic processes
natural processes relating to the formation and shaping of landforms and landscapes
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Drumlin
A mound of glacial debris that has been streamlined into an elongated hill
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End Moraine
The collective term for the three types of moraine ridge that can be formed from deposition at the snout
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Erratic
An individual piece of rock, varying from a small pebble to a large boulder which is composed of different geology from the area in which it has been deposited
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Lateral Moraine
A ridge of till running along the glacial valley
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Medial Moraine
A ridge of till running along the middle of a glacial valley
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Moraine
Moraine is used to refer to an accumulation of a glacial till to form a ridge
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Push moraine
Till which has been shunted up into mound. Therfore the long axis of the individual stones may be orientated upwards from their original horizontal position
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Recessional Moraine
A series of ridges running transversely across glacial troughs and which are broadly parallel to each other and to the end moraine. They are found further up the valley than the terminal moraine
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Terminal moraine
A ridge of till extending across a glacial trough.
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Till sheets
Formed when a large mass of un-stratified drift is deposited at the end of a period of ice sheet advance, which smooths the underlying surface
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Hummocky moraines
Moulds of glacial till left by retreating corrie glacier
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The skiddaw Group
Mainly slates and not resistant to weathering and erosion
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The Windermere Group
Mainly sedimentary rocks which are least resistant to weathering and erosion
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The Borrowdale Volcanic
Igneous rocks which are resistant rocks
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Ice sheet
Large accumulations of ice which bury the landscape beneath. They extend for more than 50,000

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