corrie betydelse and definition

Exempel på corrie

• The mountains—among which are, it is said, fourteen extinct craters—range upward higher and higher toward the southern end, with corries and glens, which must be, when seen near, hanging gardens of stupendous size. 

• It is, of course, only in mountainous country with lakes and corries that this type of scheme can be carried through.

• I should have thought the only difficult areas were those with corries and rock dens, where gassing will not work.

• The three summits are tightly grouped around a small corrie (glacial cirque), but their spectacular form is due to large-scale landslipping, not ice erosion.

• Two ridges run north-east from the summit with one curving north-west to enclose a high corrie.

• As well as ski tows, snow fences and bulldozed tracks, this corrie is also now home to a funicular railway.

• The tarn is a waterfilled corrie about 50 ft deep, this being enhanced by a dam.

• This corrie has a history of previous avalanches.