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cirque: a standalone construct

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cirque1 CONSTRUCTCirqueBARR · GLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY

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Glacial geomorphology

an armchair-shaped hollow eroded by a small glacier at a mountain head, used as an indicator of past snowlines.

In glacial geomorphology, cirque refers to an armchair-shaped hollow eroded by a small glacier at a mountain head, used as an indicator of past snowlines. This meaning comes from Barr (2015) in Earth-Science Reviews.[1]

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  1. Barr, I. D., & Spagnolo, M. (2015). Glacial cirques as palaeoenvironmental indicators: Their potential and limitations. Earth-Science Reviews, 151, 48-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.10.004

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