What are two landforms that can be caused by glaciers?

Answer 1

There are erosional landforms and depositional landforms caused by glaciers.

Erosional landforms include:
Arete: a steep-sided, sharp-edged bedrock ridge formed by two glaciers eroding away on opposite sides of the ridge.

Cirque: a semicircular or amphitheater-shaped bedrock feature created as glaciers scour back into the mountain. This is where the snow and ice forming the glacier first accumulates; it is the "headwaters" of a glacier.

Col: a low spot or pass along a cirque or an arete.

Groove: an elongate depression carved out of bedrock as numerous rock particles embedded in the base of a glacier scour away at the underlying bedrock as the ice flows across the landscape.

Hanging Valley: a valley eroded by a small tributary glacier, such that the elevation of the valley floor is higher than the elevation of the valley floor that the hanging valley joins. The erosive power of glaciers is dictated by their size: the larger a glacier, the farther down into the landscape it can erode. Thus the valley floors of small tributary glaciers will be higher in elevation that the valley floor of the larger glacier that the small tributary glacier joins.

Headwall: the steep back-wall of a cirque.

Horn: a pyramid-shaped mountain peak created by several glaciers eroding away at different sides of the same mountain.

Paternoster Lakes: a chain of lakes in a glacial valley.

Striations: lines etched in bedrock underlying glaciers as individual particles embedded in the glacier scratch the underlying bedrock. These lines indicate the orientation of glacial flow.

Tarn: a glacial lake produced by scouring. These are often found in cirques.

Truncated Spur: drainage divide that has been cut off as glaciers straighten the valleys they erode.

U-shaped Valley: a glacially eroded valley; also called a glacial trough.


Some of the depositional landforms include:

Moraine: an accumulation of unconsolidated material deposited by glaciers. There are many different types of moraines, and depending on the type, the appearance of moraines may vary.

End Moraine: an accumulation of unconsolidated material deposited at the snout end of a glacier. Two different types of end moraines are terminal moraines and recessional moraines.

Ground Moraine: unconsolidated material deposited directly beneath the base of a glacier.

Lateral Moraine: unconsolidated material deposited along the sides of an alpine glacier.

Medial Moraine: moraine formed on top and in the middle of an existing glacier. When two alpine glaciers flow together, their lateral moraines join, forming a medial moraine, a ridge in the middle and on top of the glacier.

Answer 2

Landforms Created By Glaciers

Answer 3

well sweetie , valleys, most valleys in the world are caused by glacial carving.the other is rivers. if the galicers melt fast enought they have the potenial to become rivers.
Cirque: a semicircular or amphitheater-shaped bedrock feature created as glaciers scour back into the mountain. This is where the snow and ice forming the glacier first accumulates; it is the "headwaters" of a glacier.

Col: a low spot or pass along a cirque or an arete.

Groove: an elongate depression carved out of bedrock as numerous rock particles embedded in the base of a glacier scour away at the underlying bedrock as the ice flows across the landscape.

Hanging Valley: a valley eroded by a small tributary glacier, such that the elevation of the valley floor is higher than the elevation of the valley floor that the hanging valley joins. The erosive power of glaciers is dictated by their size: the larger a glacier, the farther down into the landscape it can erode. Thus the valley floors of small tributary glaciers will be higher in elevation that the valley floor of the larger glacier that the small tributary glacier joins. i hope this helps . Good question . -B-

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What are two landforms that can be caused by glaciers?

Answer 5

the features are:
mountains and steep slopes without much soil

transported soil covering large areas

soil with a large range of partical size-clay to boulders even at the surface

wide valleys with U-shaped profiles

many lakes including finger lakes and kettle lakes

disrupted-not well connected- stream drainage patters

many small hills composed of sediments such as drumlins and moraines

and

polish parallel grooves, and scratches on bedrock surfaces called striations.

i hope i helped these all came out of the earth science physical setting 2007 edition prentice ha;; review book for new york so they are right if you are doing homework or something.

Answer 6

valleys, most valleys in the world are caused by glacial carving.
the other is rivers. if the galicers melt fast enought they have the potenial to become rivers.
also lakes, glacial lakes

Answer 7

Lakes can also be formed by glaciers, hence the term "glacial lakes."

Answer 8

high peaks in mountains and low peaks in mountains i have already forgoten but i just learned about that too its a shame lol! Good luck!

Answer 9

Basically valleys and moraines.