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.

This U-shaped valley is carved into hard bedrock and represents an intact fjord morphology, carved 300 million years ago, and subsequently filled up with sediment and later exhumated. At the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is a perfect u-shaped valley, rocky outcrops, exquisite villages and at this time fields of wild flowers (certainly in May). This is a short walk showcasing all this. Park in Arncliffe.