2006-10-16 07:55:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
A tarn is a lake that forms in a cirque. A cirque is an almost circular depression in a mountain at the head of a glacier, and is formed mainly by the process called "plucking".
2006-10-16 07:58:54 · answer #1 · answered by David A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Tarn is a département in the Midi-Pyrénées région in the south-west of France, named after the Tarn River.
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A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a corrie excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. (A corrie may be called a cirque.)
The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn meaning pond as such is often found in names of both glacial and non-glacial small upland lakes in the English Lake District and Pennines.
In local dialect in Cumbria, the word is also used generally to refer to any small lake or pond, regardless of its location and origin [1].
In Scandinavian languages a tjern or tjärn or tjørn is a small natural lake, often in a forest or with vegetation close around it or growing into the lake.
A tarn is basicaly when a corrie's rock lip acts as a dam and keeps water in. This newly formed lake is called a tarn.
2006-10-16 08:10:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a corrie excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. (A corrie may be called a cirque.)
The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn meaning pond as such is often found in names of both glacial and non-glacial small upland lakes in the English Lake District and Pennines.
In local dialect in Cumbria, the word is also used generally to refer to any small lake or pond, regardless of its location and origin.
In Scandinavian languages a tjern or tjärn or tjørn is a small natural lake, often in a forest or with vegetation close around it or growing into the lake.
A tarn is basicaly when a corrie's rock lip acts as a dam and keeps water in. This newly formed lake is called a tarn.
2006-10-16 08:17:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a corrie excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. (A corrie may be called a cirque.)
The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn meaning pond as such is often found in names of both glacial and non-glacial small upland lakes in the English Lake District and Pennines.
In local dialect in Cumbria, the word is also used generally to refer to any small lake or pond, regardless of its location and origin.
In Scandinavian languages a tjern or tjärn or tjørn is a small natural lake, often in a forest or with vegetation close around it or growing into the lake.
A tarn is basicaly when a corrie's rock lip acts as a dam and keeps water in. This newly formed lake is called a tarn.
2006-10-16 08:00:10 · answer #4 · answered by Amit G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tarn is a Norse term for a lake. We have Malham Tarn here in the Yorkshire Dales
2016-03-18 23:27:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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