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GLACIER
TYPES
retreating glaciers
piedmont glaciers
icefields
hanging glaciers
tidewater glaciers
surging glaciers
rock glaciers
mountain glaciers
ice caps

GLACIER FEATURES
glacier terminus
ice caves
icefall
crevasses
ogives

GLACIAL LANDFORMS
glacial grooves and striations
chatter marks
glacial trough
glacial erratic
moraines
aretes, horns, and cirques
drumlins

Glacial Grooves and Striations

The fine features in this photograph are glacial striations, or glacial scratches, produced where clasts (gravel and rocks) carried by the glacial ice and meltwater cut into the bedrock.

(Source: Natural Resources Canada. Photograph by Lynda Dredge. Copyright Terrain Sciences Division, Geological Survey of Canada.)