What is where? Flashcards

(15 cards)

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Macro Scale Landforms

A

Corries, Glacial trough (hanging valley, truncated spurs, ribbon lake/fjord

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Meso scale landforms

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roche mountonees, crag and tail

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3
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Micro scale

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striations

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4
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Fluvioglacial transport and deposition

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Ice-contact and Proglacial features

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5
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Ice contact features

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eskers, kames, kame terraces

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Proglacial features

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sandurs, varves, kettle holes

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Glacial transport and deposition

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types of moraine, drumlins, types of till

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Glacial processes over time

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Rapid, Slow

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Rapid glacial processes over time

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avalanches, rockfalls, volcanic activity, GLOFS, seasonal processes (sandurs, varves, eskers)

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Slow glacial processes voer time

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Changes due to glacial rpcoesses (river severn), post glacial alteration (hydrosere)

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Periglacial landforms

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permafrost, ground ice formatino, frost weathering, water and wind

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Permafrost landforms

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sporadic, dicsontinous, sporadic, influences

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Ground-Ice formation

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Ice wedge Polygons, patterned ground, pingos

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Water and wind formations

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Glacial meltwater (braided drainage pattern), dry valleys, loess

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Frost weathering landforms

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frost weathering, chemical weathering, nivation hollows, block fields, scree slopes, pro-talus rampart, tor, solifluction terraces and lobes, and head deposits

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