The release and accumulation of rock debris that a glacier has eroded and transported, dropped either directly from melting ice as unsorted till or reworked and sorted by glacial meltwater into stratified outwash sediment. It builds landforms including moraines, drumlins, eskers and outwash plains across formerly glaciated terrain.
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1. Glacier (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia infobox 'Lead section' = 'A glacier (US: ; UK: or ) is a persistent body of natural ice, ...' on 'Glacier'View the Source 2. Glacial erratic - Wikipedia
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large masses of rock, often as big as a house, that have been transported by glacier ice
3. Ice Age (Wikipedia)
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In July 1837 Agassiz presented their synthesis before the annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Natural Research at Neuchatel.
Moraine (Wikipedia)
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A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.
Kame (Wikipedia)
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A kame, or knob, is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier.
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