Glacial landforms are landforms created by the action of glaciers. Most of today's glacial landforms were created by the movement of large ice sheets during the Quaternary glaciations. Some areas, like Fennoscandia and the southern Andes, have extensive occurrences of glacial landforms; other areas, such as the Sahara, display rare and very old fossil glacial landforms.
Antique postcard shows rocks scarred by glacial erosion
Yosemite Valley from an airplane, showing the "U" shape
Glacially plucked granitic bedrock near Mariehamn, Åland
Kamenitsa Peak erosion in Pirin mountain, Bulgaria
A cirque is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie and cwm. A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.
Two cirques with semi-permanent snowpatches near Abisko National Park, Sweden
Upper Thornton Lake Cirque in North Cascades National Park, U.S.
Maritsa cirque in Rila Mountain, Bulgaria
The Lower Curtis Glacier in North Cascades National Park is a well-developed cirque glacier; if the glacier continues to retreat and melt away, a lake may form in the basin