State the landforms formed by the action of moving ice. Explain any one of them.
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Glaciers are huge, slow-moving bodies ofice, formed due to the compaction of snow layers. ... Move with respect to gravity and pressure, the actions of glaciers (soil erosion, transportation, deposition) lead to creation of glacial landforms.
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As the glaciers expand, due to their accumulating weight of snow and ice they crush and abrade scour surfaces rocks and bedrock. The resulting erosional landforms include striations, cirques, glacial horns, arêtes, trim lines, U-shaped valleys, roches moutonnées, overdeepenings and hanging valleys.
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