CASE STUDY-EASEDALE TARN

Question 1

terminal moraine-description

Answer 1

steep-sided, perpendicular to the side of the valley (90 degrees). most are cresent shaped…often vegetated

Question 2

formation of terminal moraine

Answer 2

bulldozing pushes the material to the glaciers snout until at the end of the glacier. it has unsorted and angular layers and the shape mirrors the shape of the glacier snout

Question 3

varved clays

Answer 3

a distinctive banded layer of silt and sand deposited in lakes near the margins of ice-sheets