Finger 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

Lake Wakatipu, Otago, South Island.

United Kingdom[]

England[]

Many of the lakes of the Lake District are finger lakes.

Scotland[]

Loch Maree

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

References[]

^ Hamblin and Carmack (1978), 885.
^ Whittow (1984), 193.
^ 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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[1] Hamblin and Carmack (1978), 885.

[2] Whittow (1984), 193.

[3] Kotlyakov and Komarova (2007), 255.

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