randkluft

See also: Randkluft

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Randkluft, from Rand (“edge, brink, rim”) + Kluft (“cleft, fissure, joint”).

Noun

randkluft (plural randklufts)

1. (geology) The headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.