Post # 10 Glacial Landscape features

The image on the left is an image of a Cirque in Antarctica. A cirque is a glacial feature created by the rock portion of a glacial mountain eroding by frost shattering and depositing the rock fragments onto the glacier below. The rock fragments are brought into the glacier and into it's ice and the fragments erode the mountain below it and creat a bowl shape downwards then the glacier is required to go over a 'lip'. Thus creating a 'cirque'. This glacial feature is considered an alpine glacial feature due to it's high elevations, this formation, I think, is both erosional and depositional. It is depositional in the way the rocks falling from the frost shattering are deposited into the glacier and it is erosional in the way the rock fragments erode the mountain below and create the cirque or bowl shape.