Sentences with phrase «by glacial erosion»
Herabouts (Mid Wales) there are remnants of deep tropical terrestrial weathering (most was removed by glacial erosion in the Quaternary).
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England's fate as an island was sealed by erosion from glacial floods that carved the English Channel.
The patterns of erosion resembled those of the «channeled scablands,» a starkly eroded landscape in eastern Washington state that was formed by floods from glacial lakes that burst their icy dams between 15,000 and 18,000 years ago.
Here we show that the East Greenland Ice Sheet existed over the past 7.5 million years, as indicated by beryllium and aluminum isotopes (10Be and 26Al) in quartz sand removed by deep, ongoing glacial erosion on land and deposited offshore in the marine sedimentary record.
Lesson 3 - Processes of Glaciation Lesson 4 - Glacial landforms shaped by erosion.
After time here, we continue to nearby Maligne Canyon, a dramatic gorge formed by glacial shifting and erosion.
IN THE KINGSTON PROJECT SPACE Mira Cantor: Erratics November 1 - 26, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, November 3, 2017, 5:30 - 8:00 pm Artist Page Erratics are formed by glacial ice erosion.
It is also possible for cold climates to increase chemical weathering in some ways, by lowering sea level to expose more land to erosion (though I'd guess this can also increase oxydation of C in sediments) and by supplying more sediments via glacial erosion for chemical weathering (of course, those sediments must make it to warmer conditions to make the process effective — downhill and downstream, or perhaps via pulsed ice ages -LRB-?)-RRB-.