What is called an armchair - like depression caused by glaciers on high mountain?
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A corrie is an armchair-shaped hollow found on the side of a mountain. This is where a glacier forms. In France corries are called cirques and in Wales they are called cwms.
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A corrie is an armchair-shaped hollow found on the side of a mountain. In France corries are called cirques and in Wales they are called cwms.
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An armchair like depression is caused by the glacial erosion is called as corrie or cirque. The cirque can be formed when the snow gets accumulated into the shallow depression on a side of any mountain.
The freezing in the winter and the thawing in the summer can cause rocks to get withered and broken up. It results into the enlargement of a hollow.
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