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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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History
Borrowed from German Randkluft, from Rand (“edge, brink, rim”) + Kluft (“cleft, fissure, joint”).
