What Landforms are created by Glacial Erosion and Deposition?

By Balaji

Updated on: February 17th, 2023

Erosional landforms, like serrated ridges, and depositional landforms, like moraines, are created by glacial erosion and deposition. A glacier is a vast mass of ice that moves across the landscape in sheets (a continental glacier or a piedmont glacier if a big sheet of ice extends over the plains at a mountain’s base) or as linear flows down mountain slopes in broad valleys that resemble troughs.

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1. Landforms created by Glacial Erosion and Deposition
2. What Landforms are created by Glacial Erosion and Deposition?

Landforms created by Glacial Erosion and Deposition

Numerous glacial erosional and depositional forms are created by glaciers such as:

Erosional Landforms: Glacial Valleys/Troughs, Horns, and Serrated Ridges.
Depositional Landforms: Moraines, Eskers, Outwash Plains, and Drumlins.

What are Glaciers?

A glacier is an ice mass that moves as a result of its weight.
As is well known that the earth’s landmass does not precisely correspond to what we can see.
There are dry, searing deserts in some places and deep, lush forests in others.
Others, however, have continuous ice covers, etc.
Among these numerous land masses, the continuously ice-covered regions of the earth’s surface are called snow fields.
The lowest point of a snowfield or persistent snow cover is known as the snowline.
In areas where the accumulation of snow over many years—often centuries—exceeds its ablation, a glacier will form (melting and sublimation).

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