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What is a glacial ridge?

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A glacial ridge could be defined as several things:

- An arête: a steep-sided ridge between two valleys that were formed by glaciers.

- corries: formed through glacier action.

- eskir/esker: a ridge of sand and gravel deposited by glacial movement.

- drumlin: an elongated hill caused by the streamlined movement of glacial ice sheets across rock-strewn lowlands.

serac - pinnacles of ice formed by the intersection of crevasses in a glacier

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