Sentence examples for glaciation form from inspiring English sources

The relief of the southern Alps is much less orderly, and the valleys, which were not affected by glaciation, form narrow and winding gorges.

The rocks that form Snowdon were produced by volcanoes in the Ordovician period, and the massif has been extensively sculpted by glaciation, forming the pyramidal peak of Snowdon and the arêtes of Crib Goch and Y Lliwedd.

In fact, glaciation probably formed on them as early as the late Miocene.

Concurrently, we find that unit stream power (particularly the slope component) explains much of the variability in channel substrate and that slope and stream power are largely influenced by the legacy of Pleistocene glaciation on channel form.

Marked by glaciation (which has formed many lakes) and stream dissection, the mountains are a headstream region for the Willamette River.

The cordilleran system of North America includes many lakes, formed by glaciation and/or tectonics.

The seaboard of western Scotland is a classic fjord landscape formed by glaciation over at least the last 0.5 Ma.

Greenland isn't that big for a canyon of that size, and for it to survive in its pre-glacial form after successive glaciations is quite something".

As the landscape was untouched by glaciation, the coastline and the geology, formed a mere 417 to 354 million years ago, reveals stories unseen elsewhere in the world.

Some caves have been formed since the Pleistocene glaciation in Norway, as has some high-latitude pavement karst.

Much of the lowland is covered with glacial deposits, including the moraine formed during the last glaciation of Ireland.