Finger lake
{{Short description|Narrow, linear lake occupying a glacial valley}}
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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."Hamblin and Carmack (1978), 885.Whittow (1984), 193.Kotlyakov and Komarova (2007), 255. Where one end of a finger lake is drowned by the sea, it becomes a fjord or sea-loch.
Examples
= New Zealand =
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- Lake Wakatipu, Otago, South Island.
= United Kingdom =
== England ==
- Many of the lakes of the Lake District are finger lakes.
== Scotland ==
- Many lochs of Scotland are finger lakes. Some like Loch Broom and Loch Maree form fjord and finger lake systems.
== Wales ==
- Many of the Welsh llyns.
= United States =
- Finger Lakes, New York State
See also
- Zungenbecken
- {{portal-inline|Lakes}}
References
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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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