|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Glossary Glaciers |
|
| Arete | Arête - Two corries next to each other form a sharp ridge between them. |
| Arête | Two corries next to each other form a sharp ridge between them. |
| Budget | Where the inputs and outputs of a glacier are the same. |
| Cirques | A hollow fills with ice. The ice then starts to form a glacier which then erodes the hollow a lot creating a shape like a spoon with a steep back wall and a lip. (Corrie, cwms) |
| Corrie | A hollow fills with ice. The ice then starts to form a glacier which then erodes the hollow a lot creating a shape like a spoon with a steep back wall and a lip. (Cwms, cirques) |
| Crevasse | A large crack in a glacier. |
| Cwms | A hollow fills with ice. The ice then starts to form a glacier which then erodes the hollow a lot creating a shape like a spoon with a steep back wall and a lip. (Corrie, cirques) |
| Drumlins | A smooth hill shaped by a glacier. The glacier was only strong enough to shape and not to erode. |
| End moraine | Moraine deposited at the snout of a glacier. (Terminal moraine) |
| Esker | Any material that was being carried in a stream under a glacier is left as a long ridge when the glacier melts. |
| Glacial Trough | A U-Shaped valley formed by a glacier. |
| Glacier | A flow of ice. |
| Hanging valleys | A high level tributary valley with a sharp fall to the main valley in a glacial trough. |
| Horn | Formed by three or more corries next to each other. (Pyramid Peak) |
| Ice sheet | Ice that doesn't flow. |
| Kame | Any material that was in a crevasse is dropped to the floor in a mound when the glacier melts. |
| Lateral moraine | Moraine at the sides of a glacier. |
| Medium moraine | Where two lateral moraines from two different glaciers join. |
| Melt-water | Melted ice. |
| Misfit stream | A stream found in a glacial trough which did not form that valley. |
| Moraine | Deposited material of a glacier. |
| Plucking | Where melt-water freezes around stones under the glacier forcing them to be pushed into the glacier. |
| Pyramid peak | Formed by three or more corries next to each other. (Horn) |
| Ribbon lake | A lake formed after glaciation by overdeepening of the glacier. |
| Ridge | A long inverted v-shaped line of rock. |
| Snout | The end of a glacier. |
| Striations | Scratches in the bedrock formed by abrasion in a glacier. |
| Tarn | A lake formed in a corrie. |
| Terminal moraine | Moraine deposited at the snout of a glacier. (End moraine) |
| Till | Unordered material deposited by a glacier. |
| Truncated spurs | Interlocking spurs which have been eroded away by a glacier leaving steep cliffs on each side of the valley. |
| Zone of ablation | Where the outputs are bigger than the inputs in a glacier. |
| Zone of accumulation | Where ice accumulates in a glacier. |
