Galtymore summit & Lough Curra (corrie)
From Wikipedia:
A cirque (French for "circus") is an amphitheatre-like valley, or valley head, formed at the head of a glacier by erosion. A cirque also is known as a coombe or coomb in England, a combe or comb in America, a corrie (coire) in Scotland and Ireland, and a cwm in Wales, although these terms apply to a specific feature of which several may be found in a cirque.
A cirque is a landform found among mountains as a result of alpine glaciers. They may be up to a square kilometre in size, situated high on a mountainside near the firn line, and typically are partially surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs. The highest cliff often is called a headwall. The fourth side is the "lip," the side at which the glacier flowed away from the cirque. Many glacial cirques contain tarns dammed by either till (debris) or a bedrock threshold.
As glaciers can only originate above the snowline, studying the location of present day cirques provides information on past glaciations patterns and climate change.
Galtymore summit & Lough Curra (corrie)
From Wikipedia:
A cirque (French for "circus") is an amphitheatre-like valley, or valley head, formed at the head of a glacier by erosion. A cirque also is known as a coombe or coomb in England, a combe or comb in America, a corrie (coire) in Scotland and Ireland, and a cwm in Wales, although these terms apply to a specific feature of which several may be found in a cirque.
A cirque is a landform found among mountains as a result of alpine glaciers. They may be up to a square kilometre in size, situated high on a mountainside near the firn line, and typically are partially surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs. The highest cliff often is called a headwall. The fourth side is the "lip," the side at which the glacier flowed away from the cirque. Many glacial cirques contain tarns dammed by either till (debris) or a bedrock threshold.
As glaciers can only originate above the snowline, studying the location of present day cirques provides information on past glaciations patterns and climate change.