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Aretes On A Colorado Map

Glaciated Features on OS Maps ArcGIS StoryMaps. Web  Aretes. Aretes are narrow, knife-edge like ridges of rock which are formed between two corries. The corries have to form either back to back, or side by side..

Glaciated Features on OS Maps ArcGIS StoryMaps
Glaciated Features on OS Maps ArcGIS StoryMaps from geology.wlu.edu

Web  An arête is a knife-edge ridge. It is formed when two neighbouring corries run back to back. As each glacier erodes either side of the ridge, the edge becomes steeper.

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