Glaciers

Go my Sons, buy stout shoes, climb the mountains,
search the valleys, the deserts, the sea shores,
and hte deep recesses of the earth ... for in this way
and no other will you arrive at a knowledge of nature
and the properties of things

P. Severinus (circa 1778)


Key words or concepts:
Glaciers as an unusual geologically phenomenon
Glacial deposition
till
morraines
terminal
lateral
medial
recessional
erratics
kames
eskers
kettles
drumlins
glacial outwash

Useful links:

Glacial Geology in Maine


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