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Glacication
Geology
51 cards·by AlexBuliis318
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Pile of rocks at side of glacier
Latteral Morain
Sum is greater than the addition of the parts
Synergistic
Park with the best example of Glacial features
Yosemite
Bathed the entire southern hemisphere in super cooled water
Antarctic Bottom Water
Happened during the miocene
Gradual Cooling
Continent which started all of that cooling
Antarctica
What is deposited by an advancing glacier
Nothing
Start of cooling for the last glaciation
Oligocene
Cause of instantaneous cooling
Snowfield effects
Old astronomer who recognize orbital eccentricity
Milankovith
The amount of sun energy reflected back into space
Albedo
Pile of rocks at the end of the glacier
Terminal Moraine
Lakes filled by rain and glacial melt
Pluvial
Features associated with but not caused by glaciers
Periglacial
How much sea level would rise if all the ice melted
Hundred meters
State with the most terminal moraines
Minnesota
Mountain range over steepened by glacial erosion
Arete
Change of earths orbit around the sun
Orbital Eccentricity
Controls Albedo
Tilt
How much cooler is the average temp during glaciation
Five degrees
Scratch in glacial path
Striation
Equilibrium line on glacier above which there is a net gain and below which there is a net loss
Snow line
What happens if glacier loses more ice than it recieves
Retreat
Blanket of boulders deposited by retreating glacier
Till
Where do scientist get the best long term weather data
Deep sea cores
A moving body of ice
Glacier
Periglacial lake which covered much of Utah
Bonneville
Zone where there is a net gain of ice
Accumulation zone
Lithified till
Tillite
What do milankovitch effects control
Cycling
Sinuous line of boulders running down a valley
Esker
Largest pluvial system in north america
Popoag
Largest Pleistocene pluvial system in North America
Aggassiz
Zone where there is a net loss of ice
Ablation zone
Very large boulder deposited with fine sediments
Eratic
How much sea level would drop during a glaciation
150 meters
Salt flats in Utah
Bonneville Salt Flats
First component of the snow field effects
Reflectivity
Small lake caused by differential erosion by glaciers
Tarn
How quickly does glacition cool down
Instantaneous
A mountain which has been over steepened by four glaciers
Mattehorn
Pluvial system which covered most of Nevada
Lahontan
Good example of an arete
Minaretes
What happens if glacier recieves more ice than it loses
Advene
Mountain which has been over steepened by glacial erosion
Horn
Pile of rocks deposited at end of glacier during equilibrium
Moraine
Hole at the head of glacier
Cirque
What is an arte
A saw tooth mountain range
How much of America will be covered in Ice during glaciation
1/3
Glacier that cuts into a V-shaped valley creates
Fjord
What is the average Alberto
33%