How do glaciers cause erosion and deposition

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Emelia Brady

10 October, 01:52

How do glaciers cause erosion and deposition

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Guadalupe · Answer 1

Like flowing water, flowing ice erodes the land and deposits the material elsewhere. Glaciers cause erosion in two main ways: plucking and abrasion.

Plucking is the process by which rocks and other sediments are picked up by a glacier. They freeze to the bottom of the glacier and are carried away by the flowing ice.

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Leonel Blackwell · Answer 2

when glaciers (slowly) glide down a mountain they carry down earth and rock and brings it down. After the glacier has completely melted the earth from the mountain id deposited to the lower ground.