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What mountain in switzerland includes three types of glacial erosion

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Mt. Matterhorn in Switzerland

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The famous Matterhorn in Switzerland displays three types of glacial erosion:

Cirques are created when glaciers erode the mountainside, scouring into it and creating rounded hollows with steep uphill faces, shaped like tilted bowls. A cirque is often more visible after the glacier melts away and leaves the bowl-shaped landform behind.

Arêtes are jagged, narrow ridges created where the back walls of two glaciers meet, eroding the ridge on both sides.

Horns are created when several cirque glaciers erode a mountain until all that is left is a steep, pointed peak with sharp, ridge-like arêtes leading up to the top.

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