Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2022 The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in …

Feb 9, 2018 · This beautiful tarn sits in a glacially-carved cirque and is still bright turquoise due to the large amounts of fine glacial sediment suspended in its waters (Olympic National Park, Washington)

A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake, pond or pool, formed in a cirque (or "corrie") excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn.

The tarn, around 30 ft deep, sits in a long narrow bowl, looked down on by a collection of huge boulders.

TARN definition: a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque. See examples of tarn used in a sentence.

Definition of tarn noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

5 days ago · A tarn is a distinctive type of mountain lake, pond, or pool found in high-altitude environments that have been shaped by ice. These relatively small, often remote bodies of water are …

Dec 20, 2025 · A Tarn, in a Vale, implies, for the most part, that the bed of the vale is not happily formed; that the water of the brooks can neither wholly escape, nor diffuse itself over a large area.

Tarn, a small mountain lake, especially one set in a glaciated steep-walled amphitheatre known as a cirque

tarn in American English (tɑːrn) noun a small mountain lake or pool, esp. one in a cirque