glacial col

C19534
concept

A glacial col is a low, saddle-shaped pass or depression in a mountain ridge formed by the headward erosion of two opposing glaciers.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
glacial feature 7
glacial col canonical 1
glacial pass 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: glacial col
Generated description
A glacial col is a low, saddle-shaped pass or depression in a mountain ridge formed by the headward erosion of two opposing glaciers.

Instances (9)

Instance Via concept surface
Boulder Field glacial feature
Khumbu Icefall glacial feature
North Col
Dotson Ice Shelf glacial feature
Harding Icefield glacial feature
Cordilleran Ice Sheet glacial feature
Col du Midi glacial pass
Nansen Ice Sheet glacial feature
Getz Ice Shelf glacial feature