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Describe how a cirque form?

Valley glaciers melt and it make a U shaped profile (cirque) ~W


What are the different types of glaciers?

Ice Sheets Ice Shelves Ice Caps Ice Streams/Outlet Glaciers Icefields Mountain Glaciers Valley Glaciers Piedmont Glaciers Cirque Glaciers Hanging Glaciers Tidewater Glaciers


What does an arete form?

An arete is a mountain ridge that is steep sided and narrow along the ridge.


Which half of a normal fault would you expect to form the floor of a valley?

The hanging wall of a normal fault would be expected to form the floor of a valley.


Where are cirque glaciers?

A cirque glacier is a small glacier that occupies a cirque or rests against the headwall of a cirque. A cirque is a deep, horseshoe-shaped hollow with steep walls which was created by erosive activity of glaciers.


What erosional features do you see in a valley glaciers?

Glaciers form U-shaped valleys. They make striations, drumlins, kettlelakes, eratics, moraines and cirque.


A large hole left behind by a glacier is called a(n)?

A hole in the ground left by a glacier is called a"kettle." Many of these form shallow lakes, as with the kettle lakes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario. This could also be called a cirque which is defined as a bowl-shaped, steep-walled mountain basin carved by glaciation, often containing a small, round lake. Cirque lake is a phrase used to describe these kinds of lakes.


How old is the hanging valley?

Hanging valleys are geological features that form over long periods of time through the process of erosion by glaciers. The specific age of a hanging valley can vary depending on the location and the history of glaciation in the area, but they are typically thousands to millions of years old.


How does a rift form?

A rift valley forms when the lithospheric stretches, tension stress occurs, causing rock to pull apart, break, and form normal faults.s the hanging wall of a normal fault slide down the footwall, a long, flat, narrow rift valley forms.


How is a glacial crique formed?

A glacial cirque is formed when a glacier erodes the headwall of a valley through processes like plucking and abrasion. As the glacier moves downhill, it creates a bowl-shaped depression with steep walls. After the glacier retreats, the cirque may fill with water, forming a tarn or glacial lake.


What is the verb of valley?

The verb form of "valley" is "valleying," which means to form a valley or to shape like a valley.


What is the plural form of the valley?

The plural form is valleys.