57.9k views
4 votes
How can a valley glacier modify the mountainous area where it forms?what glacial features form the mountainous area?

1 Answer

4 votes
Answer: Valley glaciers form cirques, arrettes and U-shaped valleys in mountainous areas cold enough to support glaciers. U shaped valleys: they are the path of an alpine glacier. Glaciers carve out valleys with steep sides and flattish bottoms Cirques. A hollowed out basin where a glacier begins to form Arrrete: A ridge formed by cirques on either side of a rock mass Horn: a mountain with cirques on three or more sides. It looks kinda like a pyramid. The matterhorn in Switzerland is a great example morraine: A hilly ridge of material deposited by the glacier marking how far it advanced. A terminal morraine is the maximum advance of a glacier, a recessional morraine marks the advance of a glacier, but not the maximum advance. A lateral morraine is a morraine deposited on the side of a glacier. Erratic. A rock picked up and carried by a glacier and deposited elsewhere tarn: a lake that forms in a cirque fjord: A U shaped valley that is flooded by ocean water
User Jugal Panchal
by
8.0k points
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

9.4m questions

12.2m answers

Categories