Glaciation has created and transformed the landscape in grand fashion shaping the very mountains we see today. An alp is is found above the ‘trim line’ and is a rounded landscape, and a horn is the sharp edged peak seen in many mountain landscapes. It is theorized that early in the Earth’s life time these alps and horns were covered by deep soil, and where thus much more rounded and covered in vegetation. With the onset of glaciation, deep snow accumulate, and ice thickened. Slowly the ice moved down slope scraping away they soil and vegetation as it crept down the mountain. Over time the alps and horns where left void of soil and vegetation, shaped into the sharp mountains ranges that we tend to see today.
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