glacial unidades geomorfologicas

1. Arete: formado cuando dos circos glaciares sobre caras opuestas de una montaña contactan entre sí formando una cresta elevada entre ambos.

2. Horn: intersección de 3 o mas circos.

3. Col: zona baja sobre la cresta entre dos circos entre dos zonas altas pass formed where two cirques have intersected to produce a low saddle between high peaks.

4. Glacial Trough: a huge U-shaped valley carved by a glacier

5. Fjord: a glacial trough fills with sea water. (remember, rivers cut V-shaped valleys)

6. Tarn: a lake in a cirque

7. Hanging Valley: higher trough of a tributary glacier that feeds into the main glacial valley. A large drop-off is located at the confluence.

8. Paternoster Lakes: a sequence of small lakes found in the shallow depressions carved out of the glacial trough

9. Cirque: the bowl-like depression that is carved by a glacier