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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wojtal, Steven F.
Language:unknown
Published: Oberlin College Library 1983
Subjects:
Surficial Geology
Quaternary Geology
Glacial erosion
Plateaus
Newfoundland
Ten Mile
Ten Mile Pond
Online Access:http://server15963.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p15963coll1,1965
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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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