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Finger lake

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Narrow, linear lake occupying a glacial valley
For other uses, seeFinger Lake.
"Trough lake" redirects here. For the lake in Antarctica, seeTrough Lake.

Afinger lake, also known as afjord lake ortrough lake, is "a narrow linear body of water occupying aglacially overdeepened valley and sometimes impounded by amorainic dam."[1][2][3] Where one end of a finger lake is drowned by the sea, it becomes afjord orsea-loch.

Examples

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New Zealand

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Lake Wakatipu andThe Remarkables

United Kingdom

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England

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Scotland

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Loch Maree

Wales

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  • Many of the Welshllynnoedd.

United States

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See also

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References

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

Literature

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  • 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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