Glaciers

A wide range of depositional landforms is associated with glacier margins. Here are a series of stacked slabs of debris, making up a group of ‘hummocky moraines’. In this example adjacent to Kronebreen in NW Spitsbergen, the moraines are the result of deformation within the glacier. Similar landforms are widely developed in areas no longer occupied ice such as Scandinavia, the British highlands and North America.

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