Geography - Ice on the Land

U-Shaped Valley (Glacial Trough)

Example - Langdale Valley, Lake District

• Has a wide floor and steep sides
• It is created as a glacier moves down the valley
• Has a U shape as the glacier smashs through

Truncated Spur

Example - El Captain (Yosemite)

• A steep bluff
• Situated on the side of a Glacial Trough

Corrie

Example - Red Tarn (Helvellyn)

• A circular, arm chair shaped hollow
• Cut into bedrock

Arete

Example - Striding Edge (Helvellyn)

• A steep knife edge
• Found between 2 Corries

Pyramidal Peak

Example - The Matterhorn (Alps)

• A mountain peak
• Formed when 3 or 4 Cirques have eroded back-to-back

Hanging Valley

Example - Base Brown (Lake District)

• A high level tributary valley from which the ground falls sharply to a lower, main valley
• Usually has a waterfall

Ribbon Lake

Example - Lake Windermere (Lake District)

• A long, narrow lake
• Found in a Glacial trough

Ice Cap

• a small body of ice (less than 50,000km sq.)
• Found in Mountain Regions

Ice Sheet

• a large body of ice (over 50,000km sq.)

Glacier

• A finger of ice that extends downhill from an ice cap
• occupies a valley