Glaciers erode U-shaped valleys with a flat floor and steep sides. The glacier uses the processes of plucking and abrasion to widen, steepen, deepen and smooth V-shaped river valleys into a 'U' shape.

These landscapes were shaped by massive glaciers. This U-shaped valley was formed by a huge glacier. Starting as a V-shaped river valley but as the glacier flowed down the snow and ice plucks and ...

The North Crestone Creek drainage area is an example of the U-shaped valley typical of glacial erosion, as opposed to the V-shaped valleys made by rivers. CSU researchers modeled the extent of ...

In Inner Mongolian, the Salawusu River follows a U-shape valley winding through Maowusu Desert in the southern tip of the Ordos Grassland. Salawusu means "yellow water" in Mongolian, from which we ...