Geography A-Level
Cold-based glaciers
What Cold-based glaciers means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Cold-based glaciers
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These develop in high-latitude polar regions like Antarctica, with basal temperature well below the pressure melting point, so they are frozen to the bedrock and move slowly through internal deformation.
Topics that use Cold-based glaciers
- Systems and processes (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Ablation
- Accumulation
- Climate change impacts
- Mass balance
- Meltwater dynamics
- Nivation
- Sediment sorting and stratification
- Solifluction
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