Amphitheatre-shaped hollows and basins hollowed by glaciers high on mountain slopes, where ice quarried the rock and left a steep headwall and a rounded floor. A basin belongs here when its cited article calls it a cirque or a glacial basin. It excludes tectonic and sedimentary basins. Many hold small lakes, and the surviving examples record where glaciers once flowed in mountain ranges across Europe and Asia.
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Sniezne Kotly (Wikipedia)
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Śnieżne Kotły (1,175 m (3,855 ft), Czech: Sněžné jámy, German: Schneegruben, literally Snowy Pits, Snowy Cirque, Snowy Cwm) are two glacial cirques situated in Poland in the Sudetes in the Karkonosze National Park.
Snow Lake (Pakistan) (Wikipedia)
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Snow Lake or Lukpe Lawo is a high-altitude glacial basin in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.
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