(also known as a cirque or cwm) a great bowl-shaped hollow at the head of a glacial valley. Accumulation of snow in a depression over many years forms a niche glacier which then erodes the corrie by plucking and abrasion in a rotational movement. Characterized by a steep back-wall and a rock lip at the lower, front end.
englischer Name, Bedeutung angelehnt an einen Familiennamen; niederländische Koseform von → Cornelia (Bedeutung angelehnt an einen römischen Geschlechternamen); auch ein Jungenname.