Glaciers

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Glaciers StreamsPart 1

• Mr. King

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Horn
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Horn
U-shaped Valley
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Horn
Arêtes
U-shaped Valley
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Horn
Cirque
Arêtes
U-shaped Valley
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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
U-shaped Valley
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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Crevasse

• Cracks in the snowfield
• Created as the glacier moves over uneven terrain
• Very dangerous to climbers

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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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U-shaped Valley

• Terrain created by an alpine glacier
• V-Valley created by a stream

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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Horn

• Usually 3 sided
• Very jagged
• Arêtes are shaped off the horns sides

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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Cirque

• Place where snow accumulates
• Highest part of the glacier
• Usually by a horn or arêtes
• Looks like an amphitheater

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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Hanging Valley

• This is a place where one glacier moves
  perpendicular into another glacier
• After the snow clears a large water fall usually
  is present

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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Arêtes

• Very steep sided ridges left behind large glacier
  action
• Arêtes are usually connected to horns
• In most cases, they are jagged

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Horn
Cirque
Hanging Valley
Arêtes
Glacier
Crevasse
U-shaped Valley
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Kettle Lakes
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Moraine
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Glacial till looks like milk in the water - it is
ground up rock
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