Pic of the day #2 (Glacier Landforms)
Landscapes of Glacier
The labels in the pic represents glacier landforms
study them and if you have any query regarding them please post them in the comment section.
Pic of the day #2 (Glacier Landforms)
What are the sequence of landforms when a glacier retreats?
The figure you see above is of receding glacier landforms..
How Eskers are formed?
After the ice has gone (retreating glacier), the position of a former ice tunnel is marked by a long, sinuous ridge of sediment known as an esker (stream-bed deposit remains, forming a ridge). Eskers are long sinuous ridges of sediment deposited by streams that ran under or within a glacier. The sediment deposited by these streams becomes an esker after the ice has melted.
Features:
• Sinuous ridges of stratified till
• Form in tunnels under the ice sheet
• Some times 100 km long or more
• They follow the general follow the general ice flow direction.