Compare features formed during and after glaciation?

Dear Student,

a. Glaciers perform the function of erosion, deposition and transforms the landscape.
b. 
. Glaciers may help in the process of weathering and may erode, exposing the rock beneath.
c. 
Glaciers may carve deep hollow like structure and may create different landscapes as they move and erode the rock underneath.
d. They may result in the formation of  cirque​, which is a kind of depression created due to collection of snow.
e. Glacier may also widens the existing valley resulting the formation of a U shaped valley.

f. Glaciers may also transport huge chunks of rocks from mountain slopes, valleys etc.

g. Also when glacier melts,  it deposits its debris in different parts deposited are called moraines​
h. Glacial movemenst also results in the formation of ponds and lakes


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