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- Corrie, (Welsh cwm; French, American cirque).
- Scottish term for a steep-walled hollow in
- the mountainside of a glaciated area
- representing the source of a melted glacier.
- The weight of the ice has ground out the
- bottom and worn back the sides. It is open at
- the front, and its sides and back are formed
- of aretes. There may be a lake in the bottom.
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