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Finger lake

Finger lake

Narrow, linear lake occupying a glacial valley

For other uses, see Finger Lake.
"Trough lake" redirects here. For the lake in Antarctica, see Trough Lake.

A finger lake, also known as a fjord lake or trough lake, is "a narrow linear body of water occupying a glacially overdeepened valley and sometimes impounded by a morainic dam."[1][2][3] Where one end of a finger lake is drowned by the sea, it becomes a fjord or sea-loch.

Examples

New Zealand

Lake Wakatipu and The Remarkables

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

Loch Maree

Wales

United States

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Hamblin and Carmack (1978), 885.
  2. [2]
    Whittow (1984), 193.
  3. [3]
    Kotlyakov and Komarova (2007), 255.

Literature

  • Hamblin, P.F. and Carmack, E.C., 1978. River‐induced currents in a Fjord Lake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 83(C2), pp. 885–899.
  • Kotlyakov, Vladimir and Anna Komarova, Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 978-0-444-51042-6.
  • Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, 1984. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.


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