A rocky outcrop with a tapering ridge of glacial deposits extending to one side.
Example sentencesExamples
- Salisbury Crag is a classic crag and tail where glaciers have left a tail of sediment extending to the right.
- The other effect of the deflection of the ice was that there was more erosion between the crag and tails.
- Common micro-scale landforms are striations, crag and tails, friction cracks and p-forms.
- The most well known example of crag and tail occurs in the centre of Edinburgh.
- A crag and tail is a larger rock mass than a roche moutonnee.