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asd123

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on: Aug 7, 2018
Where ice sheets reach the ocean by flowing through fjords, the glacial ice is called a(n) _____.
 a. ice cap
 b. outlet glacier
 c. piedmont glacier
  d. end moraine
 e. roche moutonne

Question 2

Eskers are _____.
 a. large boulders of nonlocal rock
 b. composed of lake sediments
 c. crescent-shaped with arms pointing in the up-ice direction
  d. long and narrow ridges composed of sand and gravel
 e. conical hills of sorted glaciofluvial deposits


duke02

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Reply #1 on: Aug 7, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d


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