Talk:Corrie (geology)
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A corrie is a feature associated with glacial activity near the tops of mountains. A scoop of rock is scraped away leaving a hollow; often secondary water appears in the form of a tarn, which is a high pond / lake. Coombes are found in similar locations near the tops of hills but are not formed by ice action first . Coombes alway seem dry or to have small streams emerging from springs and sometimes sinking back in to sedimentary layers.
Why Not Merge?[edit]
There is very little about Coombes on the Coombes page so do it. Cls14 00:17, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- Well, at least the whole disambiguation part must be left in coombe if that's the case. I have no strong feelings whether the dicdef-like part at the top should be merged to this article, though. Punkmorten 21:10, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose The Coombe page serves as a disambig page for a huge number of places, and a coomb is not a corrie - a coomb is defined by Chambers 20th Century dictionary as 'a deep little wooded valley: a hollow in a hillside' and a corrie as 'a semicircular mountain recess or cirque'. I feel there is sufficient difference in meaning to justify keeping the articles separate. DuncanHill 11:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose per DuncanHill. `'mikka (t) 21:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Cirque[edit]
Despite this article's assertion of a distinction, there actually isn't anything said in this article that isn't also in Cirque. Should be merged? The way, the truth, and the light 01:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Done. The way, the truth, and the light 00:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)