Cirque glacier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A cirque glacier is formed in a cirque, bowl-shaped depressions on the side of mountains. Snow and ice accumulation in corries often occurs as the result of avalanching from higher surrounding slope...
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accumulation area or zone Where snow falls on a glacier, commonly on a snowfield or cirque. ... cirque (corrie or cwm) A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain caused by glacial erosion. After glaciation, the depression may contain a lake.
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Valley Glacier: an alpine glacier flowing in a valley. In mountainous regions, glacial flow is restricted by the valley walls. These glaciers start in cirques and extend down-valley from the cirque.
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The photo from Glacier National Park shows the cirque that Lake Ellen Wilson sits in. The back wall of the cirque is marked in red on the topographic map. The photo was taken approximately from where the camera is located on the map, ... Return to Table of Contents - Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms...
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Encyclopedia article about Glacial cirque. Information about Glacial cirque in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... (redirected from Glacial cirque)
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To the south of the Athabaska Glacier is an amphitheater-like cirque filled by a small glacier which is cascading slowly down into the valley.
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For most alpine glaciers, cirques are the areas in the alpine valleys where snow first accumulated and was modified into glacial ice. The glaciers that occupy cirques are called cirque glaciers. Horns are pyramidal peaks that form when several cirques chisel a mountain from three or more sides.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Glacial cirque. Glacial cirque. Information about Glacial cirque in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from Glacial cirque)
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Cirques are mountaiside bowls carved by glacial erosion. ... A cirque ("serk") is a bowl-shaped rock valley on the side of a mountain, often with a glacier or permanent snowfield in it. (more below)
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