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Cirque

/sərk/

noun
- 1. a half-open steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside, formed by glacial erosion.
- 2. a ring, circlet, or circle. literary
Word Origin late 17th century (in cirque (sense 2)): from French, from Latin circus.
Scrabble Points: 17
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Geological feature and glacier-formed valley
A ' (from the Latin word) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from, meaning a pot or cauldron) and ; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion. The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep. Cliff-like slopes, down which ice ... Wikipedia
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