- Tarn (lake) - Wikipedia
A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake, pond or pool, formed in a cirque (or "corrie") excavated by a glacier A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn
- TARN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
—Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb 2022 The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms
- Tarns - U. S. National Park Service
This beautiful tarn sits in a glacially-carved cirque and is still bright turquoise due to the large amounts of fine glacial sediment suspended in its waters (Olympic National Park, Washington)
- What Is A Tarn? - WorldAtlas
A mountain pool or lake formed in the cirque of a glacier is known as a tarn, a rock-basin lake, or a corrie loch A tarn is created when either river or rainwater fills up a cirque
- TARN Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Tarn definition: a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque See examples of TARN used in a sentence
- TARN | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
The tarn, around 30 ft deep, sits in a long narrow bowl, looked down on by a collection of huge boulders
- TARN definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
tarn in American English (tɑːrn) noun a small mountain lake or pool, esp one in a cirque
- tarn - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
A Tarn, in a Vale, implies, for the most part, that the bed of the vale is not happily formed; that the water of the brooks can neither wholly escape, nor diffuse itself over a large area
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