9. Glacial Landforms

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9. Glacial Landforms

Emergent lowland coast Erosional work of glacier 9.2. The landforms created by glacial erosion 9.1.1. Cirque (or Corrie)9.1.2. Arete 9.1.3. Pyramidal Peaks 9.1.4. Tarn 9.1.5. Bergschrund Cirque, arete and pyramidal peak Figure no.2- Bergschrund 9.1.7. Hanging Valley 9.1.8. Truncated spurs Glacial Erosional Landforms 9.1.9. Paternoster lakes 9.1.10. Roche Moutonnee 9.2.1. Boulder clay or glacial till 9.2.2. Outwash deposits 9.2.3. Erratics 9.2.4. Moraines Different types of moraine 9.2.5. Outwash plain and Kettles 9.2.6. Kames 9.2.7. Eskers 9.2.8. Drumlins Glacio-Fluvial Deposits 10.1. Mechanism of wind Action in deserts 10.2. Erosional Landforms-Wind 10.2.1. Ventifacts or Dreikanter 10.2.3. Rock Pedestals or Mushroom Rocks 10.2.5. Zeugens 10.2.6. Mesas and Buttes 10.2.7. Inselbergs 10.3. Depositional Landforms-wind 10.3.1. Loess 10.4. Fluvial Desert Landforms 10.4.1. Wadis 10.4.2. Pediments 10.4.3. Bahada (Bajada)10.4.4. Playas 11.1. Erosional landform 11.1.1. Sink Holes, Swallow Holes, Dolines and Uvalas/valley sink 11.1.2. Lapies 11.1.3. Caves 11.2. Depositional Landforms 11.2.1. Stalactites and Stalagmites

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