Randkluft Definition

noun

(geology) The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.

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Singular:
randkluft
Plural:
randklufts

Origin of Randkluft

  • Borrowing from German Randkluft, from Rand (“edge, brink, rim”) + Kluft (“cleft, fissure, joint”).

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