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Depending on when it was formed, the size and speed it is moving it could be either an Avalanche or Glacier. If it is an incredibly old, slow moving, large, ice mass it is likely a Glacier; however if it is a quickly moving, small (relatively), ice mass it is an Avalanche.
When a glacier stops moving and end moraine will be deposited in front of it.
When a glacier stops moving forward, it deposits the sediment it carried in the form of moraines. Moraines are piles of rocks, debris, and soil that accumulate at the edge or front of a glacier. They can serve as markers of past glacier extent and movement.
A boulder left behind by a retreating glacier is known as an erratic. A glacier is a moving river of ice and snow.
The term for a slowly moving mass of ice is a glacier.
Depending on when it was formed, the size and speed it is moving it could be either an Avalanche or Glacier. If it is an incredibly old, slow moving, large, ice mass it is likely a Glacier; however if it is a quickly moving, small (relatively), ice mass it is an Avalanche.
When a glacier stops moving and end moraine will be deposited in front of it.
No. A glacier is a mass of moving snow and ice.
Ridges of rock debris that form in front of a glacier are called terminal moraines at the point that the glacier stops moving ahead.
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True. Even when a glacier is retreating, the ice in the upstream area continues to flow towards the downstream terminus. The retreat is due to the melting happening at a faster rate than the glacier is moving forward.
When a glacier stops moving forward, it deposits the sediment it carried in the form of moraines. Moraines are piles of rocks, debris, and soil that accumulate at the edge or front of a glacier. They can serve as markers of past glacier extent and movement.
it is how a glacier erodes a landscape.
An erratic block.
A glacier
A boulder left behind by a retreating glacier is known as an erratic. A glacier is a moving river of ice and snow.