Glacial Formation and Movement
📌 Glaciers formed in the UK's Lake District about 18,000 years ago during the last Ice Age in hollows on mountainsides called quarries or Combes.
💧 Snow accumulated year after year, eventually becoming tightly packed ice strong enough to move due to melting at the base (sole) caused by pressure from the overlying ice, facilitating movement via rotational slip.
❄️ Freeze-thaw weathering above the glacier widens cracks in the rock as water expands when freezing, causing rock fragments (scree) to fall onto the ice.

Glacial Erosion Processes
🗿 Abrasion occurs as embedded rocks scrape the valley floor, acting like sandpaper to deepen and smooth the landscape.
🪨 Plucking involves ice melting and refreezing around large rocks, effectively lifting them away, which contributes to creating steep back walls in the quarries.
🏞️ Glaciers transformed pre-existing V-shaped valleys into wider, U-shaped valleys (glacial troughs) through abrasion and plucking.

Post-Glacial Landscape Features
🗻 Smaller glaciers left behind hanging valleys within the main glacial trough.
⛰️ The grinding action of the ice sliced off the ends of interlocking spurs, resulting in truncated Spurs.
💧 When the ice melted around 11,500 years ago, meltwater filled the quarries, forming tarns, and left behind scattered boulders called erratic stones.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ The landscape transformation in areas like the Lake District is a direct result of powerful glacial action over millennia.
➡️ Key erosional processes include abrasion, plucking, and freeze-thaw weathering.
➡️ Features like U-shaped valleys, tarns, and erratic stones serve as present-day evidence of past glaciation.

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