Sep 02 2009
Our Word for the Week is Plucking
Our word for the week is Plucking, and this has nothing to do with plucking chickens. The term Plucking is a term related to Earth Science, and is a process of glacial erosion. Water beneath a glacier will freeze fragments of loose rock to the ice. When the ice moves, the rock fragment is “plucked” away from the underlying bedrock. Plucking is thought to be responsible for the formation of deep, jagged slopes such as the back wall of the corrie and the downslope-side of the roche moutonnee.
Word of the week is a regular feature on Science Fun and the ‘word’ is chosen by opening up my Big Book of Science Definitions and randomlly pointing the a word on the page.
