where are cirques and aretes found?
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A horn results when glaciers erode three or more arêtes, usually forming a sharp-edged peak. Cirques are concave, circular basins carved by the base of a glacier as it erodes the landscape. The Matterhorn in Switzerland is a horn carved away by glacial erosion.
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Cacti are native to the Americas, ranging from Patagonia in the south to parts of western Canada in the north—except for Rhipsalis baccifera, which also grows in Africa and Sri Lanka. Cactus spines are produced from specialized structures called areoles, a kind of highly reduced branch.
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If the cirque is subject to seasonal melting, the floor of the cirque most often forms a tarn (small lake) behind a dam, which marks the downstream limit of the glacial overdeepening. The dam itself can be composed of moraine, glacial till, or a lip of the underlying bedrock.
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A majority of the Rifts can be found in the Southeast corner of the map near Paradise Palms. On the contrary, only two Rifts are located across the entire snow biome.
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Europeans first encountered cacti when they arrived in the New World late in the 15th century. Their first landfalls were in the West Indies, where relatively few cactus genera are found; one of the most common is the genus Melocactus. Thus, melocacti were possibly among the first cacti seen by Europeans.
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Vortexes (or vortices) are found at sacred sites throughout the world – the Great Pyramid in Egypt, Machu Picchu in Peru, Bali, Stonehenge, Uluru/Ayers Rock in Australia, etc.
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Thebes, Egypt. Reference no. Thebes (Ancient Greek: Θῆβαι, Thēbai), known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about 800 kilometers (500 mi) south of the Mediterranean. Its ruins lie within the modern Egyptian city of Luxor.
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Xcaret (Mayan pronunciation: [ʃkaˈɾet]) is a Maya civilization archaeological site located on the Caribbean coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. The site was occupied by the pre-Columbian Maya and functioned as a port for navigation and an important Maya trading center.
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['Torkoal: South and Southeast Asia.', 'Tropius: The Middle East and Africa.', 'Relicanth: New Zealand/The Cook Islands.', 'Volbeat: Europe, Asia and Australia.', 'Illumise: The Americas and Africa.', 'Solrock: Currently the Americas and Africa, but switches with Lunatone.']
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U-shaped valleys, hanging valleys, cirques, horns, and aretes are features sculpted by ice. The eroded material is later deposited as large glacial erratics, in moraines, stratified drift, outwash plains, and drumlins. Varves are a very useful yearly deposit that forms in glacial lakes.
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The three southern circumpolar constellations visible from most locations in the southern hemisphere are Carina, Centaurus, and Crux.
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Ancient Ruins Older Than The Pyramids Discovered In Canada A team of Canadian Ph. ... This ancient village was discovered when researchers were searching Triquet Island, an island located about 300 miles north of Victoria, British Columbia. The team found ancient fish hooks and spears, as well as tools for making fires.
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The Diomede Islands are located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia, which borders the Chukchi Sea to the north and the Bering Sea to the south. 9.3 km (5.8 mi) to the southeast is Fairway Rock, which is generally not considered part of the Diomede Islands.
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They are usually located near radio towers and inside fortresses. Almost every radio tower has one. They can also be found scattered around the map, usually outside Outpost and inside Fortresses.
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Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In common English, they are known as the crow family, or, more technically, corvids.
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['A temple located on Tython.', 'The temple on the ice world of Ilum.', 'The temple on Vrogas Vas.', 'The temple on Ossus.', 'A temple on Dantooine.', 'The temple on the prairie planet of Lothal.', 'The Temple of Eedit on Devaron.', 'The temple on Ledeve.']