2. CirqueA cirque (from a French word for "arena"), corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a pot or cauldron) or cwm is an amphitheatre-like valley head, formed at the head of a valley glacier by erosion. The concave amphitheatre shape is open on the downhill side corresponding to the flatter area of the stage, while the cupped seating section is generally steep cliff-like slopes down which ice and glaciated debris combine and converge from the three or more higher sides.
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