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Explain Ice-Pushed Ridge

Ice-Pushed Ridge Explained!

Ice-Pushed Ridge Technical Terms

Ice-Pushed Ridge: An asymmetrical ridge of local, essentially non-glacial material (such as deformed bedrock, with some drift incorporated in it) that has been pressed up by the shearing action of an advancing glacier. It is typically 10 - 60 m high, about 150 - 300 m wide, and as much as 5 km long. Examples are common on the Great Plains where such ridges occur on the sides of escarpments formed of relatively incompetent rocks that face the direction from which the ice moved. GG



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