GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A cirque (French: [siʁk]; from the Latin word circus ) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire, meaning a pot or cauldron) and cwm (Welsh for ‘valley’; pronounced [kʊm]).

Detailed explanation-2: -A corrie is an armchair-shaped hollow found on the side of a mountain. This is where a glacier forms. In France corries are called cirques and in Wales they are called cwms.

Detailed explanation-3: -cirque, (French: “circle”), amphitheatre-shaped basin with precipitous walls, at the head of a glacial valley. It generally results from erosion beneath the bergschrund of a glacier.

Detailed explanation-4: -Corrie (Also called cirque)-Armchair-shaped hollow in the mountainside formed by glacial erosion, rotational slip and freeze-thaw weathering. This is where the valley glacier begins.

Detailed explanation-5: -A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake, pond or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn.