Morfología del circo de Tucarroya (Macizo de Monte Perdido, Pirineo Aragonés)

Abstract

The author analizes one ofthe most spectacular examples of glacier morphology that can be found in the Spanish Pyrenees. After exposing the most important structural aspects, the karstic shaping, the glacial and periglacial processes will be analized succesively. The present study will be mainly centered in the description and explanation ofthe forms originated by pleistocenic glaciers and also in the new and recent glaciers. We quoted severa! moraines from a historie epoque and we poin t out sorne basic characteristics ofrecent residual glaciers