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9.1.10. Roche Moutonnee

A roche moutonnée is a rock hill shaped by the passage of ice to give a smooth up-ice side (stoss side) and a rough, plucked surface on the down-ice side(lee side).


Roche Moutonnee

9.2. Glacial landforms resulting from deposition

Glaciers carry along their bases the rock fragments they have scraped and plucked from the underlying bedrock. These forms the feature of glaciated lowland.

The landforms created by glacial erosion are: