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Monster Bulldozers Scour Continent

Many areas of the Arctic have been shaped by repeated glaciations. In the North American and western Eurasian Arctic, ice sheets have scoured the landscape like giant bulldozers, tearing away topsoil and broken rock.

The ice at the bottom of a glacier is usually loaded with debris, including large rocks. Melt water seeps into cracks in the underlying bedrock and then refreezes. As the ice moves forward, chunks of rock are plucked from the bedrock and dragged along on the bottom of the ice.

The glacier acts like a gigantic piece of sandpaper, eroding, scraping and grinding down the rock.

Striations are grooves or scratches left behind in the bedrock (picture) after a glacier has passed over it, and geologists use these markings to determine the direction that the ice took.

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