Glacial Erosion (UEB contracted)

By: Rnib

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Synopsis: This page shows two images. There is a cross section at the top of the page and a plan view at the bottom of the page. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The cross section view shows a corrie. The mountain peak is in the top left with the steep back wall of the corrie coming sharply down and right. The floor of the corrie is the bowl shaped depression in the bottom centre of the image. This is where the snow accumulates and eventually turns to ice. This flows over the lip on the right. It continues flowing to the right as a glacier. The ice is not shown. The image at the bottom of the page shows a mountain peak seen from above in the centre of the image. There is corrie to the left and right, and a corrie at the top and bottom of the image. Each corrie is separated from its neighbour by a high narrow ridge. The corrie on the right has a small lake in it called a tarn.

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