As the material is eroded , it can be frozen into the lower part of the ice sheet and moved along, or it can be carried along just below the ice sheet, or it can be carried to the ice front by meltwater. Ice as a conveyor belt. The material eroded from under the glacier is carried to the glacier edges. Deposition The glacier acts like a conveyor belt. As the ice flows, it carries material along that it has eroded.
Depositional features are features created by the glacier depositing or releasing sediment .
They vary in scale from thin ground cover to huge terminal moraines such as Cape Cod. Depositional features include landforms directly created by ice, but also include features that are created by glaciation indirectly, such as deltas and fans.