Glacial erosional features - lunate fractures
Lunate fractures have crescent shape in plan view. In cross section, lunate fractures have an asymmetric "V" shape, with shallowly inclined up-glacier side and a steeply-inclined down-glacier side. Glacier flow was, then, from left to right across this surface.
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Oberlin College Library
1993
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| Online Access: | http://server15963.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p15963coll1,1928 |
| Summary: | Lunate fractures have crescent shape in plan view. In cross section, lunate fractures have an asymmetric "V" shape, with shallowly inclined up-glacier side and a steeply-inclined down-glacier side. Glacier flow was, then, from left to right across this surface. |
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