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Formation of a Corrie

Snow collects in the north facing hallow of a mountain and the bottom layer turns to ice


Ice begins to move and the hollow is eroded


Rocks frozen on to the bottom of the ice scrape away at the base of the hollow


This is know as abrasion

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