GLACIAL LANDFORMS

A. Introduction

• landforms affected by mass balance, mode of flow, mode of erosion/transportation/deposition

• features on the ice

• erosional landforms

• depositional landforms

• meltwater & aeolian landforms

B. Features on the Ice

1. Crevasses  

2. Ice Falls

3. Ogives

4. Moulins

C. Erosional Landforms

1. Alpine Glaciers

a. cirque       

b. tarn

c. horn 

d. arete

e. U-shaped valley 

(1) paternoster lakes

(2) giant stairsteps  

(3) hanging valley

(4) fjord  

2. Continental Glaciers

a. grooves & striations

(1) finger lakes

b. streamlined features: roches moutonnees

D. Depositional Landforms

1. Moraines

a. end moraines  

(1) terminal moraines

(2) recessional moraines

(3) dead-ice moraines

b. lateral moraines (alpine)  

c. medial moraines (alpine)  

d. interlobate moraines (continental)

e. ground moraine (alpine & continental)  

2. Drumlins    

E. Meltwater Landforms

1. Eskers    

2. Kames    

a. moulin kames

b. ice-walled lake deposits

3. Outwash Plains

a. kettle holes

G. Aeolian Deposits

1. Loess

H. Summary