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Preferred Labelskos:prefLabel: Glacial Setting
URI: https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/def/voc/ga/GeomorphologySettings/Glacial_Setting ↗Go to the persistent identifier link
Within Vocab: Marine geomorphology - Part 2 Geomorphology

Preferred Labelskos:prefLabel	Glacial Setting
Definitionskos:definition	A SETTING in which geomorphic UNITS are primarily formed by glacial, periglacial and proglacial processes on modern or previously glaciated coasts or on the CONTINENTAL SHELF (PHYSIOGRAPHY).
Narrowernarrower	moraine (BGU) streamlined landform (BGU) corrugation ridges (BGU) corrugation ridges within ploughmarks (BGU) crevasse-filling (BGU) cupola hill (BGU) erratic (BGU) esker (BGU) glacial fjord (BGU) glacifluvial delta (BGU) glacifulvial outwash plain (BGU) glacigenic debris flow/lobe (BGU) hill-hole pair (BGU) glacitectonic raft (BGU) grounding zone wedge (BGU) U-shaped valley (BGU) hummocky terrain (BGU) ice-contact delta (BGU) ice-proximal fan (BGU) iceberg grounding pit (BGU) kettle hole (BGU) medial moraine (BGU) meltwater channel (BGU) iceberg ploughmark (BGU) proglacial meltwater channel (BGU) rogen (ribbed) moraine (BGU) sill/threshold (BGU) sub-ice shelf keel scour mark (BGU) thrust-block moraine (BGU) tunnel valley (BGU) cross-shelf trough (BGU) trough-mouth fan (BGU) glacial basin (BGU)
See AlsoseeAlso	Marine geomorphology - Part 2 Geomorphology
Is Defined ByisDefinedBy	Marine geomorphology - Part 2 Geomorphology

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