Dynamic Planet

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Across
  1. 2. alternate bands of light and dark ice seen on a glacier surface.
  2. 4. glacial troughs that fill with seawater
  3. 7. when a mountain glacier's terminus doesn't extend as far downvalley as it previously did
  4. 9. a very small glacier
  5. 11. a nearly vertical channel in ice that is formed by flowing water
  6. 13. a mass of ice that originates on land
  7. 15. Open fissure in the glacier surface
Down
  1. 1. a peak or pinnacle thinned and eroded by three or more glacial cirques.
  2. 3. part of a glacier with rapid flow and a chaotic crevassed surface; occurs where the glacier bed steepens or narrows.
  3. 5. Remnant elongated hills formed by historical glacial action
  4. 6. Fountain that develops when water from a conduit is forced up to the surface of a glacier
  5. 8. also called a moulin
  6. 10. amphitheater usually sculpted out of the mountain terrain
  7. 12. a rocky crag or small mountain projecting from and surrounded by a glacier or ice sheet.
  8. 14. a fissure that separates a moving glacier from its headwall rock
  9. 16. A sinuous ridge of sedimentary material