pyramidal peak

Where three or more cirques meet, a pyramidal peak is created.

A pyramidal peak is an exaggerated form produced by ice erosion of a mountain top.

It consists of four 20-story towers, with pyramidal peaks, standing on a seven-story commercial base.

The squat split-gates with pyramidal peaks are a Cirebon emblem.

The weather continued to threaten for the next two days, and finally the blizzard broke in full fury as they approached a strangely pyramidal peak.

Sharp ridges, or arêtes, were formed between the corries and some of the mountains have pyramidal peaks.

These had corries and tarns, arêtes and some pyramidal peaks.

Garnet Peak stands alone as a pyramidal peak.

Its most important pyramidal peaks are:

If multiple cirques encircle a single mountain, they create pointed pyramidal peaks; particularly steep examples are called horns.

From below, The Tongue appears as an impressive pyramidal peak with steep slopes on all sides, obscuring the higher ground behind.

It is also often called 'the Matterhorn of the South,' for its pyramidal peak when seen from the Dart River.

Pyramidal peak (map abbreviation)

The Colima Volcano is 3825 masl and has a pyramidal peak in contrast to the other which has been leveled somewhat.

The busy Heilbronn Way (Heilbronner Weg) runs over the pyramidal peak.

The ridge contains pyramidal peaks and five large cirques, the appearance of the latter bearing a resemblance to the Colosseum in Rome.

Glacial processes produce characteristic landforms, such as pyramidal peaks, knife-edge arêtes, and bowl-shaped cirques that can contain lakes.

Its distinctive shape features stacked chevron setbacks on the north and south sides, a pyramidal peak rotated 45 , and an 80 foot (24 m) spire.

A pyramidal peak of the Tian Shan range between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, is called "Khan Tengri."

The many three-sided peaks, called horns or pyramidal peaks, and the knife-like ridges of the southern half of the range are results of the heavy mountain glaciation.

Among other qualities, the commission cited the twin pyramidal peaks on the red-brick and terra-cotta structure, "a rare surviving office building of its era" constructed around a full-height atrium.

The most spectacular walk is to the top of Mount Vrysinas, the pyramidal peak just behind the town where neolithic peoples, then Minoans, brought votive offerings to the gods.

A pyramidal peak, sometimes in its most extreme form called a glacial horn, is an angular, sharply-pointed mountaintop created by the erosion of multiple glaciers converging on a central point.

A Cheese With Veins of Ash The secret of Marble Mountain, a pyramidal peak with a four-and-a-half-inch vertical drop, is beneath its snowy rind.

So named by the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition (1964-65) because a pyramidal peak at its southern extremity appears to be dangling from the ridge as a pendant.