// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the chatter mark say? It had a lot to scratch.
In glacial geology, a chatter mark is a wedge-shaped mark (usually of a series of such marks) left by chipping of a bedrock surface by rock fragments carried in the base of a glacier (glacial plucking). Marks tend to be crescent-shaped and oriented at right angles to the direction of ice movement.[1][2]
There are three main types of chatter marks. A crescentic gouge is an upstream-facing concave mark created when a piece of rock is removed. A crescentic fracture is a downstream-facing concave mark that also results from rock removal. In contrast, a lunate fracture is likewise downstream-facing but forms without the removal of rock material.[3]
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[edit]- ↑ Marshak, Stephen, 2009, Essentials of Geology, W. W. Norton & Company, 3rd ed. ISBN 978-0393196566
- ↑ Dictionary of Geological Terms, Third Edition (1984). American Geological Institute Publications. Robert L. Bates and Julia A. Jackson, Editors
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
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