Ice Erosion: When ice erodes the surface of a glacier.
Two types: Plucking and Abrasion
Type 2: Abrasion
Type 1: Plucking
The process in which a part of a glacier is broken down into smaller pieces.
This happens when the ice grows and the tips/sides of the glacier expand and break
Type 1: Plucking
Type 2: Abrasion
The process in which a part of a glacier is broken down into smaller pieces, and lands in the lower frozen part of the glacier.
When the broken pieces of the glacier fall, they land in the lower part of the glacier that is frozen as well.
Glacier
The process in which a part of a glacier is broken down into smaller pieces, and lands in the lower frozen part of the glacier. These pieces then penetrate the glacier and stay in the bottom.
Once these pieces land, they become parts of sediment in the lower glacier.
This is the next step of the process, in which the eroded ice rests at the surface of the glacier. Then it moves with the glacier.
Glacier
The glacier has sediments eroded pieces of the glacier inside it.
Glacier
This is the next step of the process, in which the eroded ice rests at the surface of the glacier. Then it moves with the glacier.
The glacier has sediments eroded pieces of the glacier inside it.