What is the term for an amphitheater like hollow at the head of a glacier
What is the term for an amphitheater like hollow at the head of a glacier
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PPSC Assistant (BS-16) — Past Paper MCQs
A: Kettle
B: Cirque
C: Saddle
D: None of these
A cirque also called a corrie or cwm forms by nivation and rotational ice movement that scoops a bowl into the mountainside. After ice retreat the hollow may hold a tarn. Kettles are depressions left by buried ice blocks in outwash. Saddle is a low point on a ridge. Thus cirque matches the definition.