Sentence examples for glacial cirque from inspiring English sources

During our five days in the back country, the glacial cirque above Lake Magog was mostly obscured by low clouds and blowing snow.

To the Editor: Regarding "There Isn't an Off-Season for Your Skis" (Dec. 9), I was surprised there was no mention of Tuckerman Ravine, a glacial cirque in New Hampshire.

The appeal of Aspen for hikers is easily grasped as you climb over a ridge high above town and spy the shimmering edge of Linkins Lake, its glassy surface reflecting a glacial cirque of jagged 13,000-foot peaks towering over a remote alpine bowl of spongy green tundra flecked with yellow and red wildflowers.

Glacial cirque levels indicate mean annual temperatures fell by 5 6°C during the Last Glacial Maximum.

When considering the morphometric attributes of a glacial cirque, imbalances between length, width, and amplitude have been deemed relevant tools for discriminating between two possible pathways of cirque growth: downwearing by glaciers or backwearing by freeze thaw processes.

In order to test the strength of the proposed methodology we applied it to a case study in the above-tree-line glacial cirque of Mount Prado (Northern Apennines, N Italy).

Like fraternal twins, the two trails snake down from their respective glacial cirques to Pinkham Notch.

Across the Usk valley, the north-facing glacial cirques that make up the distinctive skyline of the Brecon Beacons are white, alpine and fearsome.

The high peaks and glacial cirques of Karkonosze National Park in the Sudety draw hikers in the summer and skiers in the winter, and the gateway resort towns of Karpacz and Szklarska Poręba cater to tourists.

Ephemeral reappearance of small glacial cirques occurred in the highest northern cirques during the coldest and wettest phases.

Moraines, protalus, scree slopes, inactive glacial cirques, uplift marine terraces, biogenic landforms, arêtes and Felsenmeer were mapped.