Faster access than browser!
16 relations: Abrasion (geology), Basal sliding, Chatter mark, Clastic rock, Drumlin, Frost weathering, Glacial erratic, Glacial polish, Glacial striation, Glacier, Moraine, Positive feedback, Rôche moutonnée, Regelation, Striation (geology), Till.
Abrasion (geology)
Abrasion is a process of erosion which occurs when material being transported wears away at a surface over time.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Abrasion (geology) · See more »
Basal sliding
Basal sliding is the act of a glacier sliding over the bed due to meltwater under the ice acting as a lubricant.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Basal sliding · See more »
Chatter mark
A chatter mark is one or, more commonly, a series of wedge shaped marks left by chipping of a bedrock surface by rock fragments carried in the base of a glacier (glacial plucking).
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Chatter mark · See more »
Clastic rock
Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Clastic rock · See more »
Drumlin
A drumlin, from the Irish word droimnín ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, and in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Drumlin · See more »
Frost weathering
Frost weathering is a collective term for several mechanical weathering processes induced by stresses created by the freezing of water into ice.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Frost weathering · See more »
Glacial erratic
Indian Rock in the Village of Montebello, New York A glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Glacial erratic · See more »
Glacial polish
Glacial polish is a characteristic of rock surfaces where glaciers have passed over bedrock, typically granite or other hard igneous or metamorphic rock.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Glacial polish · See more »
Glacial striation
Glacial striations are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Glacial striation · See more »
Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Glacier · See more »
Moraine
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Moraine · See more »
Positive feedback
Positive feedback is a process that occurs in a feedback loop in which the effects of a small disturbance on a system include an increase in the magnitude of the perturbation.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Positive feedback · See more »
Rôche moutonnée
In glaciology, a rôche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Rôche moutonnée · See more »
Regelation
Regelation is the phenomenon of melting under pressure and freezing again when the pressure is reduced.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Regelation · See more »
Striation (geology)
In structural geology, striations are linear furrows generated from fault movement.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Striation (geology) · See more »
Till
Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.
New!!: Plucking (glaciation) and Till · See more »
Redirects here:
Glacial plucking, Plucking (Glaciation), Plucking (glaciers).
