Glaciers

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<p>Freeze thraw weathering </p>

Freeze thraw weathering

Water gets into cracks,freezes and expands

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Plucking

Pulling pieces of rocks from tge group

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Abrasion

When rocks scrape and grind against bedrock

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Corrie

A bowl shaped area formed when glacier erodes

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Arete

A sharp narrow ridge form between 2 corries

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Pyramidal peak

Formed when 3 or more corries erodes a mountain from different directions

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Accumulation zone

Area where snow build up

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Ablasion

Area where snow melts

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Snout

End of a glacier

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Glacial till

Actuall mixture of rocks etc.. left usually at the snout

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Moraine

Piles fo rocks and sediment near snout

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