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Glacial Features term index

Terms A ablation advance alpine glacier arete B basin bosses boulder train boulder trains braided stream braided streams C cirque cirque lake cirque lakes cirques cliff glacier cliff glaciers col continental glacier crescents crevasse deposit D drumlins E end moraine erratics esker F fanning filled glacial lakes filled lakes finger lake finger lakes firn fjord flocculate fluvial deposition fluvio-glacial material G glacial depositional features glacial erosional features glacial features glacial fluvio-glacial deposition glacial glacio-marine deposition glacial hydrologic features glacial ice contact deposition glacial ice sheet erosional features glacial ice-laid deposition glacial valley glacial valleys glacier glacier types glaciers glacio-lacustrine deposition glacio-lacustrine material glacio-marine deposits ground moraine H hanging valley hanging valleys headwall horn I ice cap ice contact material ice margin lakes ice scour plain ice sheet ice sheets and continental glaciers ice-contact features ice-laid deposits ice-laid material ice-scour plain indicators interlobate interlobate moraine K kame kame terrace kame terraces kettle kettle lake kettle lakes kettles L lateral lateral moraine lateral moraines lobes lodgement M mammillated surface medial medial moraine N nivi O outwash outwash plain outwash plains P paternostal lakes plains with no drainage polished R recede recessional moraine recessional moraines roche moutonnee S sill small lakes strandflat striations swamps swampy areas T tarn tarns terminal terminal moraine terraces with high drainage threshold till till plain tills troughs truncated truncated spur U u-shaped valleys V valley glacial erosional features valley glacier valley glaciers valley train varved clay varved clay deposits varved clays

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