Glacial landforms are deposits of sediments produced by the advance and retreat of glaciers. As a glacier forms and advances, large amounts of rock and soil are picked up and incorporated into the base of the ice. In alpine glaciers, erosion along...

As the glaciers expanded, due to their accumulating weight of snow and ice , they crushed and scoured surface rocks and bedrock. The resulting erosional landforms include striations, cirques, glacial horns, arêtes, U-shaped valleys, roches moutonnées,...

TUX TURKEL Staff Writer Portland Press Herald (Maine) 05-27-2007 Selling the ICE AGE ; You'll find some of the nation's finest examples of glacial landforms Down East, where efforts are under way to market them as an unspoiled trail for 'geotourists.' Byline: TUX...

State OKs landform preservation DNR would spend $1.57 million to save glacial terrain By DON BEHM of the Journal Sentinel staff Thursday, January 25, 2001 The Natural Resources Board on Wednesday unanimously approved spending more than $1.57 million to...