
Episode 129: Glaciers, Ice, and Groundwater
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Erosional Land Forms
i may get the pronunciations of some of these alittle wrong, couse many of them are derived from non english words. So let's start with erosiona, anforms, or erosional processes. The most basic phenomenon is glacial striations. This is basically lots of marks and scratches on rocks that were once located underneath a glacier. Then transportation is moving those from the location where they were eroded to somewhere else, generally downhill. And the deposition is when they are depo ted, and a new landscape feature or formation occurs as a result of deposition. Now we're going to talk about how glaciers engage in these proce s in the context of glacial land forms
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