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glaciated and valley
Skagway is located in a narrow glaciated valley at the head of the Taiya Inlet, the north end of the Lynn Canal, which is the most northern fjord on the Inside Passage on the south coast of Alaska.
The valley of Redstone Creek is U-shaped, characteristic of a glaciated valley.
* the geographical term for a rounded, glaciated valley also known as a corrie or cirque
The lake sits in a deep U-shaped glaciated valley scoured by a glacier in the surrounding volcanic and limestone rocks during the last ice age.
The upper section of the river lies in a glaciated valley, with glacier scouring scars high up on the upper parts of the mountains of the West Coast Range.
It is located on the western slopes of the glaciated Conwy valley, below the ridge of Cefn Cyfarwydd, the village having been largely built in a semicircle at the point where the river Crafnant flows from its hanging valley to join the river Conwy.
The creek with its waterfall are a hanging valley entering as a tributary to the glaciated main valley of Cayuga Lake.
Newmilns lies at the foot of a glaciated valley and is mostly surrounded by farmland and woodland.
There is considerable variation, however, between the rain-drenched and heavily glaciated east coast and the drier and more continental interior valley.
The high Uintas were extensively glaciated during the last ice age, and most of the large stream valleys on both the north and south sides of the range held long valley glaciers.
Lying in a u-shaped valley common to Scotland's glaciated landscape, the terrain in and around Aberfeldy is gently undulating.
The town is situated near the centre of Low Furness, on the eastern crest of a glaciated valley which runs obliquely across the peninsula.
The Ogwen emerging at the western end of Llyn Ogwen immediately descends cataracts and waterfalls, known as Ogwen Falls in English and Rhaeadr Ogwen in Welsh, before continuing in a north-north-westerly direction down the glaciated Nant Ffrancon valley.
The lake fills a glaciated valley that is dammed in part by glacial till from the Pinedale Glaciation, and is younger than about 12, 000 years.
* Glen, glaciated valley, U-shaped

glaciated and Mount
Mount Baker ( Lummi: Qwú ’ mə Kwəlshéːn ; Nooksack: Kw ’ eq Smaenit or Kwelshán ), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States.
After Mount Rainier, Mount Baker is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade Range volcanoes ; the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker, is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes ( except Rainier ) combined.
The centerpiece of the Ansel Adams wilderness is the Ritter Range, which includes dark metavolcanic glaciated mountains such as Mount Ritter, Banner Peak, and The Minarets.
The north face of Mount Robson is heavily glaciated and of ice plunge from the summit to Berg Glacier.
Compared with other heavily glaciated volcanic peaks such as Mount Washington and Mount Thielsen, which display eroded volcanic necks as their cores, Three Fingered Jack's present summit is a narrow ridge of loose tephra supported by a dike only thick on a generally north-south axis.
The stratovolcanoes ( Mount Baker and Glacier Peak ) are the most obviously glaciated peaks and have the largest glaciers, but many of the smaller, nonvolcanic peaks are glaciated as well.
Mount Shuksan is a glaciated massif in the North Cascades National Park.

glaciated and Wilderness
The Emigrant Wilderness is a glaciated landscape of scenic beauty.

glaciated and rocky
The south face of the Barre is rocky, while its north face is glaciated, being the source of the Glacier Blanc.

valley and Mount
is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis.
The hippodrome at Mount Lykaion, located in a valley below and to the north of the altar, is the only extant hippodrome from Greek antiquity, and is therefore crucial to our understanding of Greek athletic festivals.
Some of these valleys historically were more accessible from Tibet than Nepal and are populated by people with Tibetan affinities called Bhotiya or Bhutia including the famous Sherpas in Kumbu valley near Mount Everest.
In 1871, the Royal Engineers constructed Jacob ’ s Ladder up the steep side of the valley from Jamestown to Knoll Mount Fort, with 700 steps, one step being covered over in later repairs.
Across the valley the successive ridges of Mount Taygetus are in evidence.
It lies on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah ( Wadi Araba ), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
By definition, Greater Las Vegas is a tectonic valley, surrounded by four mountain ranges, with nearby Mount Charleston being the highest elevation at, located to the northwest.
In apocalyptic literature, Mount Megiddo, the hill overlooking the valley where the current kibbutz is located, is identified as the site of the final battle between the forces of good and evil at the end of time, known as Armageddon and mentioned in the New Testament in Revelation 16: 16.
The Basin and Range also contains the Owens Valley, the deepest valley in North America ( more than 10, 000 feet ( 3 km ) deep, as measured from the top of Mount Whitney ).
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, the Misty Mountains ( also known by its Sindarin name of Hithaeglir — misspelled as Hithaiglin on the original Lord of the Rings map — and as the Mountains of Mist ) is a mountain range, running for 795 miles ( 1280 kilometres ) from north to south, between Eriador and the valley of the Great River, Anduin, and from Mount Gundabad in the far north to Methedras in the south.
Its probable location was near the upper source of the Wadi Far ' ah, an open valley extending from Mount Ebal to the Jordan River which is full of springs.
Tyropoeon Valley ( i. e., " Valley of the Cheesemakers ") is the name given by Josephus the historian ( Wars 5. 140 ) to the valley or rugged ravine, in the Old City of Jerusalem, which in ancient times separated Mount Moriah from Mount Zion and emptied into the valley of Hinnom.
The western wall of the Temple Mount rose up from the bottom of this valley to the height of 84 feet, where it was on a level with the area, and above this, and as a continuance of it, the wall of Solomon's cloister rose to the height of about 50 feet, " so that this section of the wall would originally present to view a stupendous mass of masonry scarcely to be surpassed by any mural masonry in the world.
The valley he identified ( which is now known as Wady Yasul in Arabic, and Nahal Etzel in Hebrew ) lies south of both Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
Bronte is located slightly northwest of Mount Etna, on the side of the valley of the Simeto river.
The Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System was established in 1998 to assist in the evacuation of the Puyallup River valley in case of eruption.
The Collect Pond was located in the eastern section of the valley, with Kalck Hoek to the west and Bayard Mount — at 110 ft. the tallest hill in lower Manhattan — to the northeast.
They lived in a great valley of Mount Imaus ( now called the Himalayan Mountains ).
Pioneer Darrell Duppa is credited with suggesting Tempe's name, adopted in 1879, after comparing the Salt River valley near a-tall butte, to the Vale of Tempe near Mount Olympus in Greece.
The Appalachian Trail passes through the town, winding down Sky Hill ( a part of Mount Wilcot ), then sweeps through the valley and over Baldy Mountain and towards Becket Mountain.
Named for Mount Charleston, the highest point in the area, the town is in a valley of the Spring Mountains to the northwest of Las Vegas, noted for its hiking trails, and for the Mount Charleston Lodge, a rustic hotel.

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