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See that U-shaped valley? That’s Lairig Ghru. It was carved out by a glacier, a huge river of ice, during the ice age - just like corries and other glacial features. As glaciers move downhill ...
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 ...
Fjord morphologies and associated glacial erosion features attesting that glaciers flowed through the desertic landscape of NW Namibia 300 million years ago. This U-shaped valley is carved into ...
Criterion (viii): Glacial action combined with the granitic bedrock has produced unique and pronounced landform features including distinctive polished dome structures, as well as hanging valleys, ...