Cirque

A cirque (French, from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a pot or cauldron) and cwm (Welsh for "valley", pronounced coom). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.

The concave amphitheatre shape is open on the downhill side corresponding to the flatter area of the stage, while the cupped seating section is generally steep, cliff-like slopes down which ice and glaciated debris combine and converge from the three or more higher sides. The floor of the cirque ends up bowl-shaped as it is the complex convergence zone of combining ice flows from multiple directions and their accompanying rock burdens, hence it experiences somewhat greater erosion forces, and is most often overdeepened below the level of the cirque's low-side outlet (stage) and its down slope (backstage) valley. If the cirque is subject to seasonal melting, the floor of the cirque most often forms a tarn (small lake) behind the moraine, glacial till or bedrock lip marking the downstream limit of glacial overdeepening of the basin, which serves as a dam at the outlet.

Cirque (album)

Cirque is an album by ambient musician Biosphere, which was released in 2000.

Miss Kittin used "Le Grand Dôme" on her mix album A Bugged Out Mix.

Cirque is dedicated to the memory of Christopher McCandless.

Track listing

  • "Nook and Cranny" – 4:02
  • "Le Grand Dôme" – 5:36
  • "Grandiflora" – 0:48
  • "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" – 5:08
  • "Miniature Rock Dwellers" – 1:04
  • "When I Leave" – 5:54
  • "Iberia Eterea" – 6:38
  • "Moistened and Dried" – 2:25
  • "Algae and Fungi Pt. I" – 5:43
  • "Algae and Fungi Pt. II" – 5:17
  • "Too Fragile to Walk On" – 4:51
  • Trivia

    The sample used in "When I Leave" comes from the documentary "Jupiter's Wife" by Michel Negroponte (1995).

    References


    Cirque (disambiguation)

    Cirque may refer to:

  • Cirque, an amphitheatre-like valley head
  • Cirque (album), a 2000 album by Biosphere
  • Cirque Corporation, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based company which developed and commercialized the first successful capacitive touchpad
  • Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian entertainment company
  • Contemporary circus (nouveau cirque), a genre of performing art developed in the later 20th century
  • La Cirque, 1891 painting by Georges Seurat
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