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oliviahorn72

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Read the following excerpt from The Works of John Playfair (1822). What glacial landform is being described?
 
  For the moving of large masses of rock, the most powerful engines without doubt that nature employs are the glaciers.Rock fragments they gradually transport to their utmost boundaries, where a formidable wall ascertains the magnitude, and attests the force, of the great engine by which it was erected.
 
  A) Arte
  B) Drumlin
  C) Horn
  D) Moraine

Question 2

Which moraine marks the furthest extent of glacial ice?
 
  A) Lateral moraine
  B) Medial moraine
  C) Recessional moraine
  D) Terminal moraine


kjo;oj

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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D


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