Thursday, December 8, 2011

When sediments fall out of a glacier, they create a deposit called?

A. kettle. C. eskers.


B. kames. D. till.|||Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment. Esker is a long trail of till. Kame is a hill or mound left behind. Kettles are holes left behind from the ice digging into the ground.|||(D) Glacial till, an unsorted deposit of a wide range of grain sizes directly related to a glacier.





A kettle is a water-filled hole left by retreating glaciers, an esker is a long ridge of sorted sand (stratified) sand and gravel, and a kame is a glacial delta created by meltwater carrying sediments through ice. Only tell is the "fall out" and unsorted part.|||D i am sure

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