Glacial Deposits- Moraines (UEB contracted)

By: Rnib

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Synopsis: This page shows a plan view of a glacier. The image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. A glacier comes from the top centre of the page towards the centre of the page. A side glacier comes from the top left of the page and joins the other glacier. Both glaciers have lateral moraines along their sides. Where the two glaciers meet the two lateral moraines join to form a medial moraine in the centre left of the larger combined glacier. The glacier used to go to the bottom of the page where there is a terminal moraine. It now only gets halfway down the page as it is retreating, revealing a newly glaciated valley. A retreating glacier does not go backwards; it is still always flowing down the mountain. It is simply melting faster than it is flowing forward, giving the appearance of retreating.

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