Glacial landscapes

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Clues

  • a steep-sided valley that was carved out by a glacier (7, 6)
  • a tributary glacial trough on the side of a main valley often with a waterfall (7, 6)
  • an eroded interlocking spur characterized by a very steep cliff (9, 4)
  • armchair-shaped hollow in the mountainside formed by glacial erosion, rotational slip and freeze-thaw weathering - this is where the valley glacier begins (6, 2, 6)
  • slippage of ice along a curved surface (10, 4)
  • steep-sided, wide and flat-bottomed valley formed by the glacier abrasion (7, 6)
  • the loss of vegetation and soil from footpaths caused by walkers, cyclists and surface runoff (8, 7)
  • the movement of eroded material (14)
  • when there is too great a volume of traffic for roads to cope with, and traffic slows to a crawl (7, 10)
  • where several corries cut back to meet at at central point, the mountain takes the form of a steep pyramid (9, 4)

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