Tuesday, December 13, 2011

What do you call a glaciated mountain peak?

A corrie (also called a cirque or cwm) starts as a snow patch on a cold mountain side. The temperatures must be low enough to allow the snow to remain all year round. Under these conditions snow can aculate and the snow patch will grow in size and depth each year. Due to temperature changes and pressure, the snow becomes altered to ice, and when sufficient ice has aculated it will begin to move downhill under the influence of gravity!!~!

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