GEOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Look It Up, Drumlin, Frequency
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Alpine glacier moraines: lateral moraine: on each side of the glacier, medial moraine: on each side of glacier and then merge at the end. Ice sheet moraines: end moraine: ice brings sediment to end of glacier and it piles up, ground moraine: look it up. Glaciers: form when more snow falls in the winter than melts in the summer. Which country has the longest coastline? (longest to shortest) Japan, australia: shoreline: the demarcation that marks the boundary between land and sea. Circular orbital motion: water particles moved by. Breaking waves: surf zone: the surf zone is the area where waves interact with the bottom as they approach the shoreline. Wave refraction: wave refraction is the bending of waves around objects. Beach drift & longshore currents: beach drift/longshore drift: the zigzag motion of sand particles along the beach face due to breaking waves, longshore current: a current parallel to the shore caused by breaking waves.
