Geography A-Level
Arête
What Arête means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Arête
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Reference: AQA
A knife-edged ridge created when two corries erode back-to-back.
Topics that use Arête
- Glaciated landscape development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Drumlins
- Erratics
- Fluvioglacial processes
- Meltwater channels
- Corries
- Eskers
- Glacial deposition
- Glacial trough
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