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เซิร์ก
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thumb|Two cirques with semi-permanent snowpatches near Abisko National Park, Sweden thumb|Upper Thornton Lake Cirque in North Cascades National Park, U.S.
A cirque is a bowl-shaped valley found in mountainous areas, typically carved by glaciers over time. These formations are notable geographical features that often retain snow and ice, making them visually distinctive parts of alpine landscapes.
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Vinony's link graph records 1,517 inbound references to เซิร์ก, and connects out to moraine, glacier morphology and valley.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Cirques, Geographical terminology in mountaineering and Glacial landforms.
Vinony links it to 53 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- valley
- Image
- Cirque-de-navacelles.JPG
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- Commons category
- Cirques
- Commons gallery
- Cirque
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000155
- model item
- glacial cirque
- name
- Gonten
- has cause
- glacial denudation
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On the map
3 mapped locations