How Do Glaciers Move?

How Do Glaciers Move?

Ice Flow Due To:

                            1) Basal Sliding - Due To Base Of Glacier Being Wet

Ice Flow Due To:

                               2) Creep (Plastic Flow) - Due To Gravity

ice flow due to:

                       3)  crevasses

Patterns of flow

•             valley glaciers vs. continental glaciers

1.  valley glaciers

• continental glaciers

How Do Glaciers Move Sediments?

•             Very Different From Any Other Type Of Sediment Movement

                1.            No Differentiation Of Size Of Material

                                I.             Boulders To Rock Flour

                2.            When Material Is Deposited It Is Unsorted And Unstratified

                3.            Glacial Drift: Any Material That Is Deposited By Glaciers

                                i.              till

                                ii.             stratified drift

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