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The peak of a glacial horn will often outlast the arêtes on its flanks. [1] As the rock around it erodes, the horn gains in prominence. Eventually, a glacial horn will have near vertical faces on all sides. [citation needed] In the Alps, "horn" is also the name of very exposed peaks with slope inclinations of 45-60° (e.g. Kitzbüheler Horn).
Horn combs were common in the era before replacement by plastic, and are still made. Horn needle cases and other small boxes, particularly of water buffalo horn, are still made. One occasionally finds horn used as a material in antique snuff boxes. Horn strips for inlaying wood are a traditional technique.
Pull-apart basin – Type of basin in geology; Quarry – A place from which a geological material has been excavated from the ground; Rift – Part of a volcano where a set of linear cracks form; Sea cave – Cave formed by the wave action of the sea and located along present or former coastlines
The name Matterhorn derives from the German words Matte ("meadow") and Horn ("horn"), [6] and is often translated as "the peak of the meadows". [2]In the Schalbetter map, printed by Sebastian Münster in 1545, the valley is labelled Mattertal, but the mountain has the Latin name Mons Silvius as well as the German name Augstalberg, in concord with the Aosta Valley (German Augstal).
Clouds Rest in Yosemite National Park is an arête.. A cleaver is a type of arête that separates a unified flow of glacial ice from its uphill side into two glaciers flanking, and flowing parallel to, the ridge, analogous to an exposed mid-channel bar in a braided river.
The Rugosa, also called the Tetracorallia, rugose corals, or horn corals, are an extinct order of solitary and colonial corals that were abundant in Middle Ordovician to Late Permian seas. [ 3 ] Solitary rugosans (e.g., Caninia , Lophophyllidium , Neozaphrentis , Streptelasma ) are often referred to as horn corals because of a unique horn ...
Horn, by Apink, 2022; Horn, a 2011 album by Pharaoh Overlord "The Horn", a song by Super Furry Animals from the 2005 album Love Kraft "The Horn", a comedy track from the 1978 album Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam
Illustration of specimen YPM 1871E, the horn cores that were erroneously attributed to Bison alticornis, the first named specimen of Triceratops. The first named fossil specimen now attributed to Triceratops is a pair of brow horns attached to a skull roof that were found by George Lyman Cannon near Denver, Colorado, in the spring of 1887. [3]