冰川运动指冰川的移动。它是控制冰川活动的基本过程和能量的来源。运动的形式一般分为重力流和挤压流两种。冰川的边缘运动速度慢，中间运动速度快。 冰川运动是研究和开发利用冰川资源的重要内容，也是防止冰川灾害重点研究课题之一。
如你所知，沉积物是通过风、水流或冰川运动等自然过程输送的物质，如沙子、砾石、化石碎片等。
Sediment as you know, is material like sand, gravel, fossil fragments that is transported by natural processes like wind, water flow or the movement of glaciers.
沿着美国东海岸，最南边的冰川运动被大量的沙子和终碛石的漂流沉积物（形成了长岛和科德角）所记录下来。
Along the east coast of the United States, the southernmost advance of this ice is recorded by the enormous sand and drift deposits of the terminal moraines that form Long Island and Cape Cod.
你们的课本中将这些分类，作为一种特殊类型的冰川运动，但是你们会发现，将其作为一种冰川运动类型的教科书和忽略这种类型的教科书同样多。
Your textbook includes these as types, as a particular type of glacier movement, but you will see that there are as many textbooks that omit it as a type of movement as include it.
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