1) Basin 2) Canadian mountain 3) Circle 4) Corrie 5) French word used in English 6) Glacial landform 7) May contain a lake 8) Mountain in Canada 9) Mount of North America 10) Mountain in North America 11) Mountain of Canada 12) Mountain of North America 13) Mount of Canada 14) Peak of Canada 15) Peak of North America
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1) Corrie 2) Cwm
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A cirque (from a French word for `arena`) is an amphitheatre-like valley head, formed at the head of a valley glacier by erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a pot or cauldron) and cwm (Welsh for `valley`, pronounced coom). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluv...
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• (n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. • (n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
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A steep-walled horseshoe-shaped recess high on a mountain that is formed by glacial erosion.
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(French: `circle`), amphitheatre-shaped basin with precipitous walls, at the head of a glacial valley. It generally results from erosion beneath the ... [5 related articles]
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Southwest-looking oblique aerial photograph showing a number of snow-covered cirques, cut into the summit of a Coast Mountains ridge along the Alaska-Canada border, east of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Credit: USGS Also known as a corrie or cwm, a steep-sided hollow formed by glacial erosi...
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A steep-walled horseshoe-shaped recess high on a mountain that is formed by glacial erosion.
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A deep, semi-circular basin eroded out of a mountain by an alpine glacier.
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The head of a glacial valley, usually with the form of one half of an inverted cone. The upper edges
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Cirque noun [ French, from Latin
circus .]
1. A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. « A dismal
cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor.
Keats. »
2. A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by p...
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An amphitheater-shaped depression at the head of a glacial valley, excavated mainly by ice plucking and frost wedging.
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Glacially eroded rock basin found on mountains. Most alpine glaciers originate from a cirque.
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The head of a glacial valley, usually with the form of one half of an inverted cone. The upper edges have the steepest slopes, approaching vertical, and the base may be flat or hollowed out and occupied by a small lake or pond.
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A deep, steep-walled mountain basin or amphitheater carved out of the mountain by an alpine glacier. Similar to a bowl but generally steeper.
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n] - a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain
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A bowl shape or amphitheater usually sculpted out of the mountain terrain by a glacier.
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bowl shape or amphitheater usually sculpted out of the mountain terrain by a cirque glacier. Cirque on Cirque Mountain in the Torngat Mountains, Newfoundland, Canada. (Photo courtesy of Hazen Russel, Natural Resources Canada. Copyright Terrain Sciences Division, Geological Survey of Canada.)
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A bowl-like feature, often said to resemble an amphitheater, caused by glacial erosion.
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corrie noun a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
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French name for a corrie, a steep-sided armchair-shaped hollow in a mountainside
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A steep-walled hollow in a mountain side, shaped like an amphitheater, or bowl, with one side partially cut away. Place of origin of a mountain glacier.
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circle; ring. · a bowl-shaped, steep-walled mountain basin carved by glaciation, often containing a small, round lake.
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a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain
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