As glaciers continue to move, debris gets removed, divides get lowered and eventually the slope is reduced to such an extent that glaciers will stop moving leaving only a mass of low hills and vast outwash plains along with other depositional features. They form various glacial erosional and depositional forms like cirques, horns and serrated ridges, glacial valleys/troughs, moraines, eskers, outwash plains and drumlins

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