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Gradational process: Glaciers - Coggle Diagram
Gradational process: Glaciers
Erosion
As glaciers move, they scour the land, which changes landforms by erosion
Erosional land forms
Fjords
Tills
Glacial Troughs
Horns
Types of glaciers
Continental glaciers
Greenland
Antarctica
Canadas Baffin Island
Mountain glaciers
found all over the world, some examples would be: Volta glacier, Fox glacier, Muller glacier
Permafrost
Permafrost is a frozen layer of soil that will not de thaw
Deposition
When glaciers move, they also transport, and deposit debris creating new landforms by deposition
Glacial landforms
Moraines
Drumlins
Outwash plains
Kames
Info on glaciers
Huge masses of slowly moving ice
Covered a massive portion of the earth around 10 to 15 thousand years ago
Form when large masses of snow compact and turn into think amounts of ice
