A bowl-shaped depression at the head of a glacial valley is called a cirque or a corrie. It is typically formed by the erosion of a glacier.
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.
A glacial valley filled with sea water is a fjord (pronounced ford)
A basin is a depression in the earth's surface that can be dry or filled with water.
A U-shaped valley produced by the erosion of a valley glacier is called a glacial trough. This distinct feature is carved out by the movement of ice over time, shaping the landscape into a broad and deep valley with steep sides.
A glacial trough is a U-shaped valley carved out by a glacier as it moves downhill. It forms through a process called glacial erosion where the glacier scours and deepens the valley over time by plucking and grinding the bedrock beneath it. The vast weight and movement of the glacier cause it to scrape and shape the landscape into a distinctive U-shaped trough.
Cirque... i am sure
If it is inundated by the sea it is called a "Fjord", if not is just a glacial valley.
Cirques
Cirque... i am sure
A 'U' shaped valley indicates glacial erosion.
A valley or a basin or a gully, or perhaps a swale or a depression.
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.
They are called hanging valleys. The smaller glacier valleys are the hanging walls that join the deeper main valley called the U-shaped valley.
A glacial valley filled with sea water is a fjord (pronounced ford)
A basin is a depression in the earth's surface that can be dry or filled with water.
A U-shaped valley produced by the erosion of a valley glacier is called a glacial trough. This distinct feature is carved out by the movement of ice over time, shaping the landscape into a broad and deep valley with steep sides.
A Valley-------------------------No a valley is not surrounded by higher land, the correct answer is a "basin" or a "depression".