Glacial Erosion
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- Hey, I'm Lil' Timmy. I'm just stopping by for a little, since I'm a tourist, but I think this glacier is so cool! The way it forms, and the way it goes away! Alright, see ya later!
- Moo! This glacier is rockin' its erosion!!
- This right here is a horn, or the tip of a mountain where the sides have been eroded away by glaciers that are now completely melted away. I've never seen one up close like this, besides in a photo! Neither has Mooford!Erosion isthe process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural resources.
- Good thing I don't have any horns...
- Hi! I'm Josh, and this is Mooford. We are talking to you today about this glacier here that I am standing on. This glacier is actually a very slowly moving river of ice formed by compacting snow on top of frozen snow on the bottom of the piling snow.
- Mooford
- This is when the snow and ice melts-the water is called meltwater-and the water flows down a stream into a pool full of water called a kettle, and freezes, then keeps melting and freezing.
- I'm gonna jump on the frozen meltwater, and I hope I don't crack it and fall in!
- Hmm, looks like the mountain has started cracking from the glacier, called a split, and some of the snow and ice has started to melt. This makes a mountain that has valley glaciers, or streams and paths glaciers made by the processes plucking, abrasion and erosion.
- Pluckingis when the bottom of a glacier, while it is freezing, picks up rocks and other sediment at the floor of the glacier, and carries them until that layer melts and deposits the sediments at the floor again. This process happens over and over again.
- Crack!!!
- Abrasionis the process of scraping or wearing away of the ice on the glacier.Once the glacier melts, it flows off the side of the mountain as water called runoff. This again flows into a kettle, and seeps into the ground as groundwater. Groundwateris water that has been sucked into the ground and seeped way down into the soil and rock crevices. It stays there until it is dug up, or freezes.
- I didn't find any grass here... Or in any of these pictures!
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