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A cirque (French:; from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic : coire , meaning a pot or cauldron ) [ 1 ] and cwm ( Welsh for 'valley'; pronounced [kʊm] ).
A cirque stairway or sequence of cirque steps is a stepped succession of glacially eroded rock basins. [1] Their individual formation is that of a cirque . These steps are arranged one above and behind the other at different heights in the terrain and caused by the same morphodynamic processes, albeit resulting in different landform shapes ...
Cirque: Starting location for mountain glaciers, leaving behind a bowl shaped indentation in the mountain side once the small glacier has melted.(add geology book citation already in the article) [1] Cirque stairway: a sequence of cirques; U-shaped, or trough, valley: U-shaped valleys are created by mountain glaciers.
A pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn in extreme cases, is an angular, sharply pointed mountain peak which results from the cirque erosion due to multiple glaciers diverging from a central point. Pyramidal peaks are often examples of nunataks.
The Cirque de Gavarnie (French pronunciation: [siʁk də ɡavaʁni]) is a cirque in the central Pyrenees, in Southwestern France, close to the border of Spain. It is within the commune of Gavarnie , the department of Hautes-Pyrénées , and the Pyrénées National Park .
Verdi Lake in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada. The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn ("a small mountain lake without tributaries") meaning pond. In parts of Northern England – predominantly Cumberland and Westmorland (where there are 197), [2] but also areas of North Lancashire and North Yorkshire – 'tarn' is widely used as the name for small lakes or ponds, regardless of their ...
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A cirque is an amphitheatre-like valley formed at the head of a glacier by erosion. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ...