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Rotational Scouring

Rotational scouring – as layers of rock debris accumulates on the surface of a glacier from valley sides, over successive winters it becomes embedded within the compressed ice. Bands of slowly rotating frozen rock are then scraped over the bedrock as the glacier moves downhill.

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