glacial erosion
Frozen river carving
Glacial erosion is the wearing away of rock and soil by moving ice.
As glaciers advance, they scrape, pluck, and grind the landscape beneath them, carving distinctive features like U-shaped valleys, cirques, and fjords.
The Great Lakes were shaped by glacial erosion during the last ice age.
- cirqueGlacier-carved mountain basin
- alpine terrainHigh mountain environment
- pluckingRemoving by tugging
- abrasionShallow surface wound
- ice scrapingRemoving frozen precipitation manually
striation · roche moutonnée · fjord · quarrying · tarn · arête · hanging valley · glacial retreat · ice age · glacial flour · moraine · ablation · drumlin · valley floor · crevasse · erratic · ice sheet · carved
erosive agent
glacial erosionwater erosion
Land worn by flowing liquid
river erosion · wind erosion · chemical weathering · wave erosion · coastal erosion