85 relations: Abrasion (geology), Alps, Amphitheatre, Arête, Australia, Śnieżne Kotły, Bedrock, Bergschrund, Black Forest, Blue Lake (New South Wales), Bowl, Burgundy, Cauldron, Côte-d'Or, Chandra Taal, Circo de Gredos, Cirque d'Estaubé, Cirque de Gavarnie, Cirque de Navacelles, Cirque du Bout du Monde (Côte d'Or), Cirque glacier, Cirque of the Towers, Cirque stairway, Cliff, Coire an t-Sneachda, Colorado, Earth-Science Reviews, Erosion, Firn, Fluvial, France, Glacial landform, Glacier, Graian Alps, Grampian Mountains, Great Gulf, Headwall, Himachal Pradesh, Hindu Kush, Ice segregation, Iceberg Cirque, India, Indian Ocean, Karst, Krkonoše, Maine, Makhtesh, Makhtesh Ramon, Matterhorn, Montana, ..., Moraine, Mount Evans, Mount Katahdin, Negev, Nepal, New Hampshire, New South Wales, Nivation, Overdeepening, Pakistan, Physical Review Letters, Piton de la Fournaise, Piton des Neiges, Plucking (glaciation), Poland, Pyramidal peak, Pyrenees, Réunion, Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish Highlands, Sierra de Gredos, Spain, Springer Science+Business Media, Summit Lake Park, Sweden, Tarn (lake), Till, Tuckerman Ravine, United States, Valley, Welsh language, Western Cwm, Wyoming, Zastler Loch. Expand index (35 more) »
Abrasion (geology)
Abrasion is a process of erosion which occurs when material being transported wears away at a surface over time.
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Alps
The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.
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Amphitheatre
An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.
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Arête
Clouds Rest in Yosemite National Park is an arête. An arête is a narrow ridge of rock which separates two valleys.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Śnieżne Kotły
Śnieżne Kotły (Sněžné jámy, Schneegruben, literally Snowy Pits, Snowy Cirque) are two glacial cirques in the western Krkonoše mountains (Giant Mountains), situated in the Karkonosze National Park on the Polish side of the border.
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Bedrock
In geology, bedrock is the lithified rock that lies under a loose softer material called regolith at the surface of the Earth or other terrestrial planets.
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Bergschrund
A bergschrund (from the German for mountain cleft) is a crevasse that forms where moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice or firn above.
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Black Forest
The Black Forest (Schwarzwald) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany.
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Blue Lake (New South Wales)
The Blue Lake is one of only four cirque lakes found in mainland Australia.
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Bowl
A bowl is a round, open-top container used in many cultures to serve hot and cold food.
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Burgundy
Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.
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Cauldron
A cauldron (or caldron) is a large metal pot (kettle) for cooking or boiling over an open fire, with a large mouth and frequently with an arc-shaped hanger.
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Côte-d'Or
Côte-d'Or (literally, "golden slope") is a department in the eastern part of France.
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Chandra Taal
Chandra Taal (meaning the Lake of the Moon), or Chandra Tal is a lake situated in the Spiti part of the Lahul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh (India).
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Circo de Gredos
The Circo de Gredos is a glacial cirque in the central part of the north slope of the Sierra de Gredos (the main range in the Sistema Central mountains in central Spain).
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Cirque d'Estaubé
The Cirque d'Estaubé is a cirque in the central Pyrenees in the Pyrenees National Park, forming the frontier between France and Spain.
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Cirque de Gavarnie
The Cirque de Gavarnie is a cirque in the central Pyrenees, in Southwestern France, close to the border of Spain.
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Cirque de Navacelles
Here the magnificence of the valley is shown. The river's meandering erosion is clear. The Cirque de Navacelles is large erosional landform, an incised meander, located towards the southern edge of the Massif Central mountain range in France.
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Cirque du Bout du Monde (Côte d'Or)
The Cirque du Bout du Monde (French: Cirque at the Edge of the World) is a steephead valley and cirque in Burgundy, in the département of Côte-d'Or near the vineyards of Beaune.
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Cirque glacier
A cirque glacier is formed in a cirque, a bowl-shaped depression on the side of or near mountains.
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Cirque of the Towers
The Cirque of the Towers is located in the Wind River Range Wyoming, U.S., part of which is in the Bridger Wilderness in Bridger-Teton National Forest, while the remainder is in the Popo Agie Wilderness in Shoshone National Forest.
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Cirque stairway
A cirque stairway or sequence of cirque steps is a stepped succession of glacially eroded rock basins.
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Cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is a vertical, or nearly vertical, rock exposure.
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Coire an t-Sneachda
Coire an t-Sneachda (sometimes misspelled as Coire an t'Sneachda) is a glacial cirque or corrie landform in the Cairngorm or Am Monadh Ruadh mountain range in the Grampian Mountains of the Scottish Highlands.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Earth-Science Reviews
Earth-Science Reviews is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Firn
Firn (from Swiss German firn "last year's", cognate with before) is partially compacted névé, a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé.
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Fluvial
In geography and geology, fluvial processes are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Glacial landform
Glacial landforms are landforms created by the action of glaciers.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Graian Alps
The Graian Alps (Alpi Graie; Alpes grées) are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps.
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Grampian Mountains
The Grampian Mountains (Am Monadh in Gaelic) are one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, occupying a considerable portion of the Scottish Highlands in northwest Scotland.
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Great Gulf
The Great Gulf is a glacial cirque, or amphitheater-like valley head formed from a glacier by erosion, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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Headwall
In physical geography and geology the headwall of a glacial cirque is its highest cliff.
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Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh (literally "snow-laden province") is a Indian state located in North India.
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Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush, also known in Ancient Greek as the Caucasus Indicus (Καύκασος Ινδικός) or Paropamisadae (Παροπαμισάδαι), in Pashto and Persian as, Hindu Kush is an mountain range that stretches near the Afghan-Pakistan border,, Quote: "The Hindu Kush mountains run along the Afghan border with the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan".
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Ice segregation
Ice segregation is the geological phenomenon produced by the formation of ice lenses, which induce erosion when moisture, diffused within soil or rock, accumulates in a localized zone.
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Iceberg Cirque
The Iceberg Cirque is a large cirque that has been carved out by glaciation.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
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Krkonoše
The Krkonoše (Czech), Karkonosze (Polish), Riesengebirge (German), Riesageberge (Silesian German) or Giant Mountains, are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif).
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Maine
Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Makhtesh
A makhtesh (מַכְתֵּשׁ, plural: (– Makhteshim) is a geological landform considered typical for the Negev desert of Israel and the Sinai peninsula of Egypt. A makhtesh has steep walls of resistant rock surrounding a deep closed valley, which is usually drained by a single wadi. The valleys have limited vegetation and soil, containing a variety of different colored rocks and diverse fauna and flora. The best known and largest makhtesh is Makhtesh Ramon.
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Makhtesh Ramon
Makhtesh Ramon (מכתש רמון; lit. Ramon Crater/Makhtesh; وادي الرمان) is a geological feature of Israel's Negev desert.
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Matterhorn
The Matterhorn (Matterhorn; Cervino; Mont Cervin) is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy.
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Montana
Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.
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Moraine
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.
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Mount Evans
Mount Evans is the highest summit of the Chicago Peaks in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
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Mount Katahdin
Mount Katahdin is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Maine at.
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Negev
The Negev (הַנֶּגֶב, Tiberian vocalization:; النقب an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel.
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Nepal
Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nivation
Nivation refers to the processes that occur under a snow patch.
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Overdeepening
Overdeepening is a characteristic of basins and valleys eroded by glaciers.
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Pakistan
Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.
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Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society.
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Piton de la Fournaise
Piton de la Fournaise (French for "Peak of the Furnace") is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island (a French department) in the Indian Ocean.
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Piton des Neiges
The Piton des Neiges (Snow Peak) is a massive 3,069 m (10,069 ft) shield volcano on Réunion, one of the French volcanic islands in the Mascarene Archipelago in the southwestern Indian Ocean.
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Plucking (glaciation)
Plucking, also referred to as quarrying, is a glacial phenomenon that is responsible for the erosion and transportation of individual pieces of bedrock, especially large "joint blocks".
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Poland
Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.
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Pyramidal peak
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.
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Pyrenees
The Pyrenees (Pirineos, Pyrénées, Pirineus, Pirineus, Pirenèus, Pirinioak) is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between Spain and France.
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Réunion
Réunion (La Réunion,; previously Île Bourbon) is an island and region of France in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius.
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Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas
Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic, sometimes also referred to simply as Gaelic (Gàidhlig) or the Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland.
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Scottish Highlands
The Highlands (the Hielands; A’ Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland.
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Sierra de Gredos
The Sierra de Gredos is a mountain range in central Spain that spans the provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, Cáceres, Madrid, and Toledo.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Summit Lake Park
Summit Lake Park is a park located along Mount Evans Scenic Byway about 64 miles (100 km) west of Denver, Colorado.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Tarn (lake)
A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier.
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Till
Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.
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Tuckerman Ravine
Tuckerman Ravine is a glacial cirque sloping eastward on the southeast face of Mt. Washington, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Valley
A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.
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Western Cwm
The Western Cwm is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face of Mount Everest.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.
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Zastler Loch
The Zastler Loch or Zastler Cirque (Zastlerkar) on the northern side of the Feldberg summit in the Black Forest is the highest cirque in the German Central Uplands.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque