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> Home > Find Out More > Twinning Sites > Lomond Glaciers > page 4: CorriesThe main glaciers at Skaftafell flow directly from the ice cap. But smaller glaciers have formed elsewhere in the past, beginning as they do, in corries. A corrie is a half bowl-shaped basin, enclosed on three sides and open on one. It forms when annual snow-falls accumulate in a hollow on a hillside over the years, building up to form a large body of ice. When the ice begins to move downhill under its own weight, a glacier is born. As the ice moves slowly downhill, more forms at the head of the glacier. The rock beneath the ice is scraped away and when the ice melts, it leaves the corrie behind.
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