Located in an arm chair shaped bedrock hollow; No tongue developed, in contrast to simple basin; As wide or even wider as their length; Catchmant area is created through the process of glacial erosion
; Occupies a separate, rounded, steep-walled recess which it has formed on a mountain side
A glacier occupying a cirque. A cirque is a rounded recess with steep sides and back wall, formed on a mountainside by glacial erosion. Cirque is an Anglicized French word that has displaced the synon
yms 'corrie' (from Scots Gaelic) and 'cwm' (from Welsh) of early glaciological usage.
Glacier that resides in basins or amphitheaters near ridge crests; most cirque glaciers have a characteristic circular shape, with their width as wide or wider than their length.