Figure 21.18
Ice-laid and water-laid glacial deposits.
Drumlins
, found in Patagonia, Argentina. [© Hauke Steinberg.] Kettle lake, northern Minnesota. [Carlyn Iverson/Getty Images, Inc.] Pleistocene
varved clay
, from an excavation in Stockholm, Sweden. The light layers are the coarse sediments deposited in a lake during warm seasons. The dark layers are the fine clays deposited when the lake was frozen in winter. [University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, John Shelton Collection, KC4536.]
Esker
, near Whitefish Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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