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Describe the occurrence and features of different types of valley glaciers.?

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include the terms glacial budget, glacial valleys, cirques, aretes, horns, tarns, pater noster lakes,

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  1. Aretes are sharp, jagged ridges left by alpine glaciation.

    Horns are sharp mountain peaks left by alpine glaciation

    Cirques are bowl-shaped valleys left by alpine glaciation.

    Tarns are shallow lakes or ponds that fill depressions left by glaciers

    Glacial troughs are broad U-shaped valleys formed by glaciers.

    Glaciers also display a "movement" called advance and retreat The balance of these things is called the glacial budget.

    A Paternoster lake is one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system. Paternosters occur in alpine valleys, climbing one after the other to the valley's head, called a corrie, which often contains a cirque lake

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