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Glaciers cause erosion through plucking true or false

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Glaciers cause erosion through plucking is true. Glaciers cause erosion in two main ways: plucking and abrasion
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Answer: True

Plucking is a glacier phenomena, it is also called as quarrying. It involves the erosion and removal of the materials like sediments, large and small boulders and rocks by a retreating glacier. These materials are displaced and deposited to other places.

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