cirque

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Headward cirque erosion by three or more mountain glaciers produces horns, which are steep-sided, spire-shaped mountains with pronounced cirques on three or more sides.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

What is the minimum number of cirques you would expect to find around a horn?

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Many scientists and philosophers have contributed to considered cirques of reductionism and an appreciation of emergence since Anderson wrote his paper.

From Scientific American • Jul. 23, 2012

As recently as 10,000 years ago, bowl-like cirques in the park's mountains were sculpted by glaciers, which left in their wake gray carpets of rock known as taluses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every foot of the landscape from here on north would be scored and scarred with reminders of glaciation—scattered boulders called erratics, drumlins, eskers, high tarns, cirques.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson