This U-shaped valley is carved into hard bedrock and represents an intact fjord morphology, carved 300 million years ago, and subsequently filled up with sediment and later exhumated. At the ...

These landscapes were shaped by massive glaciers. This U-shaped valley was formed by a huge glacier. Starting as a V-shaped river valley but as the glacier flowed down the snow and ice plucks and ...

Sitka, Alaska, is home to one of the world's most spectacular lakes. Nestled into a U-shaped valley of dense forests and majestic peaks, and fed by snowpack and glaciers, the reservoir ...

For years, geologists have argued about the processes that formed steep inner gorges in the broad glacial valleys of the Swiss Alps. The U-shaped valleys were created by slow-moving glaciers that ...

Cwm Idwal is one of the most spectacular natural wonders in Wales. The u-shaped valley and lake at the bottom has been formed over millennia and is home to some fascinating geological features and ...

More than 10 4 years after the last major glaciation the topography of mountain ranges worldwide remains dominated by characteristic glacial landforms such as U-shaped valleys, but an ...