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Plucking
The mechanical removal of pieces of rock from a bedrock face that is in contact with glacier ice. Blocks are quarried and prepared for removal by the freezing and thawing of water in cracks, joints, and fractures. The resulting pieces are frozen into the glacier ice and transported.
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- Industry/Domain: Water bodies
- Category: Glaciers
- Government Agency: USGS
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