Some parts of glacier contain alot of sediment, and some have very little, Why is this.

-- charlie zambito (czten@hotmail.com), April 19, 2001

Answers

The wearing down of the landscape by glaciers is called glacial erosion. The glaciers are forces of nature. They can be thought of as a powerful river, picking up particles in their path, smoothing the land over which they travel, and dropping materials on their way.

So i think that depends on the terrain that it is traveling over and the amount of debris it is able to pick up.

http://www.glacier.rice.edu/land/5_glaciallandforms.html

-- Mike Porter (mikeporter25@hotmail.com), April 24, 2001.