Finger lake

A finger lake, also known as a fjord lake or trough lake, is a narrow body of water occupying a glacially overdeepened valley, sometimes impounded by a terminal moraine. Where one end of a finger lake is drowned by the sea, it becomes a fjord or sea-loch.

Examples

New Zealand

• 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

• Welsh llynnoedd

See also

• Ribbon lake – Long and narrow, finger-shaped lake, usually found in a glacial trough
• Zungenbecken – Glacial series
• Lakes portal

References

Works cited

• Hamblin, P. F.; Carmack, E. C. (1978). "River-Induced Currents in a Fjord Lake". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 83 (C2): 885–899. doi:10.1029/JC083iC02p00885. ISSN 2169-9291.
• Kotlyakov, Vladimir; Komarova, Anna (2007). Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-444-51042-6 – via Google Books.
• Whittow, John (1984). The Penguin Dictionary of Physical Geography. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051094-X – via the Internet Archive.

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