Glacial plucking both exploits pre-existing fractures in the bedrock and requires continued fracturing to maintain the cycle of erosion. Glacial plucking is...

feathers Feather-plucking, a behavior in birds Plucking post, as used by birds of prey to dismember their prey Plucking (glaciation), a process related...

as a result of abrasion on the "stoss" (upstream) side of the rock and plucking on the "lee" (downstream) side. Some geologists limit the term to features...

Hexagonaria percarinata. Such stones were formed as a result of glaciation, in which sheets of ice plucked stones from the bedrock, grinding off their rough edges...

(terminal moraines) at the margin of the glacier. The chief result of glaciation has been the modification of the preglacial topography by the deposition...

dikes, and glaciation. Evidence of these events can be seen in glacial scarps, evidence of abrasion, presence of dikes, glacial plucking, and more. For...

larger fragments is classified as plucking (or quarrying), the other major erosion source from glaciers. Plucking creates the debris at the base or sides...

eroded by plucking. The basin will become deeper as it continues to be eroded by ice segregation and abrasion. Should ice segregation, plucking and abrasion...

years ago a series of glaciations further modified the area by accelerating mass wasting through ice-wedging, glacial plucking, scouring/abrasion and...

within glaciology include glacial history and the reconstruction of past glaciation. A glaciologist is a person who studies glaciers. A glacial geologist...

bedrock wear in rivers; coastal erosion by the sea and waves; glacial plucking, abrasion, and scour; areal flooding; wind abrasion; groundwater processes;...

processes: plucking and abrasion. As glaciers flow over bedrock, they soften and lift blocks of rock into the ice. This process, called plucking, is caused...

known as bergschrund that occur between the moving ice and the headwall. Plucking and shattering can be seen here by those exploring the crevasses. A cirque...

interlocking spurs as a river can. As the valley glacier moves, abrasion and plucking erode the protruding tips of the spurs, leaving steep cliff-like truncated...

marking its maximum advance. At this point, debris that has accumulated by plucking and abrasion, has been pushed by the front edge of the ice, is driven no...

MacGillycuddy's Reeks. Carrauntoohil is composed mainly of sandstone, whose glaciation produced distinctive features on the mountain such as the Eagle's Nest...

underlying rocks, similar to sandpaper on wood, producing smaller glacial till. Plucking – pieces of bedrock are cracked off by glaciers, producing larger erratics...

collision. The area has also been shaped by focused orographic precipitation, glaciation and rapid erosion. The elevation of Himachal Pradesh increases from SW...

the Tioga glaciation of the last ice age, the peak projected above the glaciers, which carved and sharpened the peak's base while plucking away at its...

potholes were formed by swirling vortexes of water called kolks scouring and plucking out the bedrock. The Scablands are littered with large boulders called...

unconsolidated sediments. Bedrock can be eroded through the action of glacial plucking and abrasion, and the resulting clasts of various sizes will be incorporated...

area. During the Tioga glaciation the peak projected above the glaciers, which carved and sharpened the peak's bases while plucking away at its sides. All...

were created by the movement of large ice sheets during the Quaternary glaciations. Some areas, like Fennoscandia and the southern Andes, have extensive...

the transport of sediment to the Po Valley that took place during the glaciations by the great glacier that ran through the Dora Baltea valley. With an...

moved when sea levels were significantly lowered due to the Quaternary glaciation, following herds of now-extinct Pleistocene megafauna along ice-free corridors...

moving west to east during the ice age.: 64–65  Erosive action such as plucking and abrasion exposed the rocky crags to the west before leaving a tail...

crystalline bedrock due to erosion during the last glaciation. This erosion consisted mostly of plucking of bedrock sheets and abrasion. The same group of...

glaciated region and the successive patterns of advance and retreat during glaciation. The name and specific characteristics of a moraine are dependent upon...

18, Boulder Clay. In The Quaternary Era, with Special Reference to its Glaciation. v. 1, London, United Kingdom, Edward Arnold, p. 376-388. Neuendorf, K...

Niagara Falls was formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved...