hanging valley

Once, on the far side of the hanging valley, he saw movement in the brush, but nothing appeared.

It looked like a cirque, or maybe a hanging valley.

It was a small hanging valley that opened out over an enormous canyon.

A short distance beyond this camp, we come to a hanging valley between two tall peaks.

Above the crags the gill runs in a small hanging valley.

The south-east side has many sharp drops down to a hanging valley.

The streams of some hanging valleys drop down over waterfalls to the main valley.

Heading down the wrong drainage could leave you standing at the rim of a hanging valley with a long walk back up, he warned us.

The side valley has to lose a lot of its height and is developing into a hanging valley.

A number of smaller streams flowing from glaciers in hanging valleys join the main stream.

Another reason hanging valleys may form is where two rivers join and one is flowing faster than the other.

The results were hanging valleys and cascading waterfalls where the tributaries met the main streams.

This symmetrical hanging valley resembles a half crater, its headwall being 700 ft high.

Hanging valleys are found in between truncated spurs as the they join the main glacial valley from the side.

Under the trees he found a viewpoint that permitted him to see both possible entries into the hanging valley below him.

The rivers are flowing from hanging valleys.

The stronger bedrock will remain in the form of a riser at the end of a hanging valley.

She outpaced me, but she had led to a sheer escarpment, where the hanging valley ended.

The term refers to the longitudinal profile of a glaciated valley that has several consecutive hanging valleys.

He tries again with a vast seated figure like a Henry Moore, in which a hanging valley forms a kind of lap.

As you progress into the hanging valley, the forest begins to thin out, and you begin the strenuous section of the hike.

A hanging valley is a tributary valley with the floor at a higher relief than the main channel into which it flows.

This relatively quick downcutting has left many seasonal tributaries with hanging valleys.

Some entering the Tye's valley from hanging valleys, plunging down high waterfalls.

This is a hanging valley, discharging via waterfalls into upper Deepdale.