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Direction of ice flow

Terminal moraine
Plucking Abrasion
Braided streams
forming braid
plains
Bedrock

Roche moutonnée formed
by glacial erosion
Delta

Marginal lake
Ice blocks

Tunnel

Outwash plain

Till
Bedrock

Outwash

FIGURE 13.8 Continental glaciation in a hypothetical region. Continental glaciation produces these characteristic landforms at the
beginning of ice wastage (decrease in glacier size due to severe ablation).

Drumlin field
Misfit Esker
meandering stream

Kames
Marshes

Delta
Recessional
moraine
Old lake
shorelines Lake Kettle
deposits lakes
Kettle Terminal
lake moraine
Outwash plain
Sand and gravel

Till
Bedrock
Outwash Swale

FIGURE 13.9 Erosional and depositional features of continental glaciation. Continental glaciation leaves behind these
characteristic landforms after complete ice wastage. (Compare to FIGURE 13.8 .)

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