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New York State Earth Science June 2006 - Question 69 |
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Written by The Earth Science Wizard
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Sunday, 29 November 2009 04:27 |

Glacial sediment is extremely heterogeneous. It typically displays great lateral and vertical variations in thickness, composition, texture, sedimentary structures, and mode of origin. Glacial sediment can be divided in two general categories: till and stratified sediment.
Till is defined as " a sediment that has been transported and is subsequently deposited by or from glacier ice, with little or no sorting by water". It is material that was released from glacier ice usually by melting and was deposited without significant transportation or sorting due to water or gravity movements.
Several general observations may be given about the occurrence of till
- Deposition of till must postdate erosion or deformation of the underlying substratum; most till was probably deposited late in the glacial cycle; the law of superposition applies to till as well as to other glacial sediment.
- Till is a mixture of anything and everything over which the ice moved, including: bedrock, older till and sediment, weathered material, soil, plant fragments, and animal remains. Till is dominated at any spot by material of local origin; the content of local material generally decreases upward in a till sequence
- Multiple till layers are common in the outer zones of glaciation. However, owing to different mechanisms of till deposition and changing ice movements, separate tills do not always indicate separate glaciations. Periods of glacier withdrawal are shown by buried soil, peat, weathered zones, fossils, permafrost features, etc
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New York State Earth Science June 2006 - Question 12 |
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Written by The Earth Science Wizard
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 06:37 |

Correct Answer: Option (4)
Solar radiation pass through the atmosphere and part of the solar radiation is absorbed by the earth surface. Then solar radiation (Short waves) is converted to heat energy causing the emission of long wave radiation (Infrared waves - IR). This IR radiation release to the atmosphere and part of that radiation is absorbed by CO2 molecules emits back. This process causes to increase the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and is called as ‘green house effect’. This is mainly governed by CO2 concentration of the atmosphere
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