Glacier Landforms
Aretes, horns & cirques
The Matterhorn in Switzerland was carved away by
glacial erosion.
—Unattributed photograph /NSIDC
Aretes and horns around Mounta Caubvick, Newfoundland, Canada.
—Source: Natural
Resources Canada. Photograph by Hazen Russel. Copyright Terrain Sciences
Division, Geological Survey of Canada.
Cirque on Cirque Mountain in the Torngat Mountains, Newfoundland, Canada.
—Source: Natural
Resources Canada. Photograph by Hazen Russel. Copyright Terrain Sciences
Division, Geological Survey of Canada.
Ice covered cirques, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctic.
—Source: Tom Lowell's Glacier Image Database, University of Cincinnati.
