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How does a glacier, at its base and sides, modify a bedrock valley?

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They can erode bedrock by two different processes: Abrasion: The ice at the bottom of a glacier is not clean but usually has bits of rock, sediment, and debris. It is rough, like sandpaper. As a glacier flows downslope, it drags the rock, sediment, and debris in its basal ice over the bedrock beneath it, grinding it

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