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As the lava walls of the cirque crumble they expel a constant dribble onto the dirty snow below.
An enormous cirque plunged 300 feet down to a frozen aquamarine lake and then sloped up and away to a sawtoothed ridge.
The cirque valley, which is heavily timbered, is deeply dissected by Portland Creek and its tributaries.
Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph cirque du Soleil.
But no matter where her career has taken her, or how big the cirque has become, Vial keeps coming back.
The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep.
The fourth side forms the lip, threshold or sill, the side at which the glacier flowed away from the cirque.
Where cirques form one behind the other, a cirque stairway results as at the Zastler Loch in the Black Forest.
Extensive cirque development in the Wernecke Mountains indicates strong alpine glaciation, and other glacial landforms such as aretes, moraines and rock glaciers are common.
Continue along the Cradle Mountain plateau and scramble over dolerite rocks to the 1,500 metre summit. Walk around the glacial cirque, from where you can take a right turn off the track to explore rugged Barn Bluff.
When the soldiers were not lost among tattered skeins of fog, they could see far out into the cirque, as if it were a bay of black water.
It stands on the western side of the cirque, with Scafell to the south and Great End to the north.
A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.
Esk Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, one of the great cirque of hills forming the head of Eskdale.
Small cirque and valley glaciers formed in north and east facing valleys, including Grisedale and the coves on the east side of Helvellyn.
L'Étrange cirque de Monsieur EdgarAt the crack of dawn, under the wan gaze of the moon and a sprinkling of stars, Monsieur Edgar brings his circus to town through back alleys.
After leaving the woods, the path climbs past the waterfalls of the Afon Llan to the glacial cirque of Cwm Llan, crossing a disused incline from an abandoned slate quarry.
Also standing above the valleys of Wasdale, Borrowdale and Great Langdale, this high cirque is open to the south and contains England's highest ground.
Generally, the slopes above Thirlmere are steep and grassy, whilst the Patterdale side exhibits rockier features, due to cirque glaciation on the north east side of the ridge.
The fluvial cirque or makhtesh, found in karst landscapes, is formed by intermittent river flow cutting through layers of limestone and chalk leaving sheer cliffs.
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The hour's walk from the village to the cirque is an event also in the life of the flower-lover.
Is the cirque under these circumstances a result of the schrund or is the schrund a result of the cirque?
The cirque, therefore, is at once the product of the glacier and its generator and conserver.
These avalanches were once believed to be the authors of the cirque.
An equestrian, named Prince, was performing at the Cirque DT a vaulting act on two horses, which were leaping fixed bars.
I remember being present at the Cirque DT during one of Moscous rehearsals, ridden by Mdlle.
He helped her celebrate her 25th birthday on Tuesday by taking her to the Royal Albert Hall to see Cirque du Soleil's new show Quidam.
Of course, there's the usual inspired Cirque du Soleil gyrating, juggling, and midair contorting.
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