Describe the landforms produced by glacier ice and meltwater and explain how these landforms reflect variations in glacier energy.

Describe the landforms produced by glacier ice and meltwater and explain how these landforms reflect variations in glacier energy.

Glaciers and ice sheets are seen as powerful agents of erosion than can radically alter landscapes and carve distinctive landforms. Distinctive landforms can also be formed by the process of meltwater.

To enable these unique landforms to be formed, many factors have to be taken into consideration so we can understand how these landforms were made. The most important processes are that of erosion and how the landscape can effect glacier energy. The main processes of erosion are Quarrying (plucking) and Abrasion.
Quarrying is where ice at the base of a glacier or ice cap is melted by friction and pressure, and this often refreezes in cracks in the rock that it comes into contact with. Freeze thaw weathering weakens the rock, and fragments of it are plucked out by the ice that flows over it. This is the process of quarrying.
Abrasion is where frozen ...