What is where? Flashcards
(15 cards)
Macro Scale Landforms
Corries, Glacial trough (hanging valley, truncated spurs, ribbon lake/fjord
Meso scale landforms
roche mountonees, crag and tail
Micro scale
striations
Fluvioglacial transport and deposition
Ice-contact and Proglacial features
Ice contact features
eskers, kames, kame terraces
Proglacial features
sandurs, varves, kettle holes
Glacial transport and deposition
types of moraine, drumlins, types of till
Glacial processes over time
Rapid, Slow
Rapid glacial processes over time
avalanches, rockfalls, volcanic activity, GLOFS, seasonal processes (sandurs, varves, eskers)
Slow glacial processes voer time
Changes due to glacial rpcoesses (river severn), post glacial alteration (hydrosere)
Periglacial landforms
permafrost, ground ice formatino, frost weathering, water and wind
Permafrost landforms
sporadic, dicsontinous, sporadic, influences
Ground-Ice formation
Ice wedge Polygons, patterned ground, pingos
Water and wind formations
Glacial meltwater (braided drainage pattern), dry valleys, loess
Frost weathering landforms
frost weathering, chemical weathering, nivation hollows, block fields, scree slopes, pro-talus rampart, tor, solifluction terraces and lobes, and head deposits