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GLACIATED VALLEYS
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BEFORE TRANSFORMATION
- Glaciers are V SHAPED
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AFTER TRANSFORMATION
- Glaciers are U shaped
- They also straighten up
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CIRQUE AND TARN LAKES
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CIRQUE
- Wedging and plucking produces an armchair like depression called cirque
- AS THE CIRQUE ENLARGES AND CONVERGE -- ISOLATED HORN
- EXAMPLE:- MATTERHORN IN THE SWISS ALPS
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TARN
- After the glacier melts away the cirque it forms a lake called the tarn