Rivers form as the snow from the upper slopes of the mountains melts, and flow along the hanging valleys. Upon reaching the mouth of the hanging valley, where the valley meets the steep walls of the main valley, the river drops to form a waterfall.
Hanging valleys are also formed due to variations in the erosion rate on the slopes of the mountains. Factors such as nature of the underlying rocks could cause the erosion rate on the tributary valleys to be higher than that of the main valleys, with the tributary valleys being made up of rock more resistant to erosion than the main valleys. Over time, the difference in erosion rates causes the two types of valleys to have different depths.
In other cases, the main valley could be older than the hanging valley and formed through glacial erosion while the more recent hanging valley being formed through water erosion by a river. It causes the rocks to become very weak, cracks widen and pieces of rock break off.
During glaciation the ice moves down the V-shaped valley due to its weight and gravity. It tears away huge rocks from the sides and base of the valley.
The glacier freezes onto the surrounding rocks previously weakened by freeze-thaw, by a process known as plucking. Thus changing the valley into a U-shape by steepening them. The erosive power of the glacier over deepens the valley floor. The rocks that have become embedded within the glacier scrape against the valley sides and base, and smoothen it like sandpaper.
This is known as abrasion. The valley is now U-shaped in cross section, with very steep sidewalls, and a flat base. A valley that opens at one end to another valley below, having a cliff or steep wall below the point where they meet.
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A pyramidal peak is formed when three or more cirques are formed back to back. As glaciers move downhill they change V-shaped valleys into U-shaped valleys or glacial troughs. The ice has great erosive power and removes any obstacles such as interlocking spurs. Whereas a river creates a V-shaped valley because it acts mainly on the base of the valley, glaciers fill the valley and create steep sides and wide bases. Hanging valleys are created where smaller valleys meet the main glaciated valley.
The glaciers in the smaller valleys are not so powerful, so they don't erode such deep valleys.
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