Glacial erosional landscape - plateau and trough topography
View to the NNE across the glaciated plateau that is the crest of the Long Range Mountains in western Newfoundland. The rock rubble at the surface, called a tor, does not show consistent striations but is thought to develop by rock fracture beneath a slow-moving glacier. The valley in the middle of...
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Oberlin College Library
1983
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Summary: | View to the NNE across the glaciated plateau that is the crest of the Long Range Mountains in western Newfoundland. The rock rubble at the surface, called a tor, does not show consistent striations but is thought to develop by rock fracture beneath a slow-moving glacier. The valley in the middle of the image is Ten Mile Pond, an Icelandic trough carved by an outlet glacier. |
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