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What land features are reveled by retreating glaciers?

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What land features are reveled by retreating glaciers?

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  1. It depends on what type of glacier as to what features you get.  With alpine glaciers you get U shaped valleys and sometimes hanging valleys.  You also get end moraines and a terminal moraine at the furthest place of advancement, there are also medial moraines and lateral moraines.  You can also get kettles left from melting fragments of ice.  With continental glaciers or ice sheets you are left with terminal and end moraines.  There is also ground moraine, kames, eskers, kettles.  This list is not complete but it is what i can remember without consulting a geology text.


  2. I thought it was a mesa. now i am curious too

  3. I am sure you mean revealed as in "to open up to view" instead of reveled as in "to take intense pleasure or satisfaction"...but then again, maybe not.

    Anyway, I will go with reveal:

    A retreating glacier may reveal U-shaped valleys, glacial till, cirques, aretes, horns, eskers, kettles, pingos, moraines, and fjords to name a few things.

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