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by dendrite9 1080 days ago
The Sabche Cirque in question looks like a fascinating, and difficult place to explore. Check out narrow the exit drainage is!

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Deep-and-narrow-gorge-of...

This Nasa blog post has a lot of good pictures of the immediate area that helps with understanding the shapes of the mountains there. I initially didn't realize just how choked down the drainage got. It seems like many cirques are described as having narrow exits but rarely are they this narrow.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2014/01...

Here's an earlier discussion related to this one: https://www.science.org/cms/asset/b7f5337c-0f34-4fb5-a907-61...