Teaching Resources > KS4 > Geography > Ice, Rivers and the Sea > Hanging Valleys

Hanging Valleys

NGfL Cymru
This unit uses animation to explain the formation of hanging valleys.

Processes such as plucking and abrasion are exemplified and images from Snowdonia and beyond are used to show how these processes have created the landscape.
Key words:
hanging valleys, process, glacier, valleys, erosion, plucking, abrasion, ice