At home, however, all will look bright and bustling as we children are set to shell peas or poppies, and the damp twigs crackle in the stove, and our mother comes to look fondly at our work, and our old nurse, Iliana, tells us stories of bygone days, or terrible legends concerning wizards and dead men.
Glacial valley. Glacial valley, also called glacial trough, stream valley that has been glaciated, usually to a typical catenary, or U-shaped, cross section. U-shaped valleys occur in many parts of the world and are characteristic features of mountain glaciation. These glacial troughs may be several thousand feet deep and tens of miles long.
Truncated (cut off) ridges and hanging valleys form when small valley glaciers merge with a single large valley glacier. Valley glaciers erode V-shaped stream valleys into much more rounded or U-shaped valleys. Sometimes a small lake called a tarn will form at the bottom of the cirque. There are three tarns in a small area of Cumbria, UK, on the geological map below, they are the black shapes.