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    the valley at the present day. Such valleys may also be known as glacial troughs. They typically have a U-shaped cross-section and are characteristic...
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    U-shaped valleys, also called trough valleys or glacial troughs, are formed by the process of glaciation. They are characteristic of mountain glaciation...
    11 KB (1,311 words) - 14:19, 21 February 2024
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    glaciation, the valley bottoms are modified by moraines and mountain lakes are common. Structural basin U-shaped or trough valley Landform Valley step Leser...
    1 KB (173 words) - 19:03, 10 August 2017
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    often occupied and shaped by a subsequent stream. The term is frequently used if a mountain range also has prominent transverse valleys, where rivers cut...
    4 KB (567 words) - 14:12, 5 May 2024
  • Channel") around 250 metres to the southeast. The roughly 700-metre-long trough-shaped valley is covered in alder carr woods and riparian woodland as well as small...
    3 KB (235 words) - 20:00, 7 November 2021
  • metres thick, carved out trough-shaped valley of the Krunkelbach that starts at the large cwm west of the Herzogenhorn. The Alb valley to the south joins the...
    11 KB (519 words) - 03:51, 31 May 2022
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    A rift valley is a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges produced by the action of a geologic rift. Rifts are formed as a...
    12 KB (1,356 words) - 20:31, 26 October 2023
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    construction method would work because he had previously built a cast-iron trough aqueduct – the Longdon-on-Tern Aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal. The aqueduct...
    28 KB (3,190 words) - 00:42, 27 January 2024
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    The valley is named after the old municipality of Zell, which became part of the new Zellertal municipality in 1976. The Zellertal is a trough-shaped valley...
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    Dry Valleys Drilling Project, 1973-76. 77°33′00″S 160°50′53″E / 77.549939°S 160.847975°E / -77.549939; 160.847975. A primary elongate trough, extending...
    8 KB (1,326 words) - 22:44, 15 July 2024
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    light and track the position of the sun. Parabolic trough power plants use a curved, mirrored trough which reflects the direct solar radiation onto a glass...
    71 KB (8,375 words) - 05:16, 12 July 2024
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    glaciers. The slopes are steep, with terrain formed by the glaciers: trough-shaped valleys, cirques, and moraines. The glacier-fed rivers are steep and energetic...
    8 KB (779 words) - 17:37, 15 January 2024
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    Glacier (redirect from Glacial Trough)
    smoothed to form a U-shaped glacial valley or glacial trough, as it is sometimes called. The erosion that creates glacial valleys truncates any spurs of...
    78 KB (9,040 words) - 08:36, 19 July 2024
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    Cordillera lies an extensive lowland, the Davao-Agusan Trough. Its northern portion includes the Agusan Valley which forms the lower river basin of the Agusan...
    69 KB (6,415 words) - 18:10, 16 May 2024
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    of domestic sheep graze the area. There is a sheltered cave with a water trough where lost sheep can rest safely if they stray away from the flock on a...
    9 KB (1,135 words) - 12:18, 24 August 2023
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    features a central uplift, a transition zone, and a ring graben (a ring-shaped trough in the outer part of the crater). Although eroded, the original rim...
    4 KB (388 words) - 23:00, 6 March 2024
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    into the edges of the V-shaped valleys (so-called Wiesenbrechen by Wiskenmaker) and turning them into trough and box valleys, and any streams were regulated...
    4 KB (451 words) - 05:58, 23 May 2024
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    U-shaped, or trough, valley: U-shaped valleys are created by mountain glaciers. When filled with ocean water so as to create an inlet, these valleys are...
    11 KB (1,226 words) - 08:56, 8 January 2024
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    A tunnel valley is a U-shaped valley originally cut under the glacial ice near the margin of continental ice sheets such as that now covering Antarctica...
    43 KB (5,524 words) - 20:37, 30 May 2024
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    Leine Uplands (redirect from Leine valley)
    through the Leine trough (Leine-Ilm Basin), an important north-south orientated geological rift valley. On the hilltops along the valley of the Leine there...
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