While perusing a textbook titled “Earth Science,” it was noted that the U-shaped land-form resulting from the (widening, deepening, and straightening) action of a glacier upon a V-shaped alpine valley is more accurately referred to as a glacial trough.
Perhaps we can petition one of the food outlets in Downtown Yosemite to rename itself “The Trough.”
(The nomination process is hereby opened.)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/2010 07:03PM by szalkowski.
The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (89% of Full)
'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Yosemite Valley anymore.'
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