Talk:Corrie (geology)

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A corrie is a feature associated with glacial activity near the tops of mountains. A scoop of rock is scraped away leaving a hollow; often secondary water appears in the form of a tarn, which is a high pond / lake. Coombes are found in similar locations near the tops of hills but are not formed by ice action first . Coombes alway seem dry or to have small streams emerging from springs and sometimes sinking back in to sedimentary layers.

Why Not Merge?

There is very little about Coombes on the Coombes page so do it. Cls14 00:17, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, at least the whole disambiguation part must be left in coombe if that's the case. I have no strong feelings whether the dicdef-like part at the top should be merged to this article, though. Punkmorten 21:10, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Oppose The Coombe page serves as a disambig page for a huge number of places, and a coomb is not a corrie - a coomb is defined by Chambers 20th Century dictionary as 'a deep little wooded valley: a hollow in a hillside' and a corrie as 'a semicircular mountain recess or cirque'. I feel there is sufficient difference in meaning to justify keeping the articles separate. DuncanHill 11:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Oppose per DuncanHill. `'mikka (t) 21:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Cirque

Despite this article's assertion of a distinction, there actually isn't anything said in this article that isn't also in Cirque. Should be merged? The way, the truth, and the light 01:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Done. The way, the truth, and the light 00:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)