glacial lakes
Frozen basin waters
Glacial lakes are bodies of water formed by glacial activity—carved by moving ice, filled by meltwater, or dammed by glacial debris.
The Great Lakes were shaped by retreating ice sheets.
Smaller glacial lakes dot mountain ranges worldwide, often strikingly blue from suspended sediment called glacial flour: We hiked up to the glacial lake at the base of the moraine.
- moraineGlacier-deposited debris pile
- cirqueGlacier-carved mountain basin
- tarnGlacial mountain pool
- meltwaterWater from melted ice
- alpineOf high elevations
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- Cold lakes
- Slovenian Alpsalpine meadows, mountain huts, alpine meadow, limestone cliffs, mountain pastures
- Vosgesgranite peaks, cirques, spruce forests, pine forests, thermal spas
- watersoceans, seas, Red Sea, Black Sea, rivers
- water bodiessea, rivers, streams, stream, ponds
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
glacial lakesoxbow lakes
Severed river meander pools
coastal lagoons · volcanic lakes · crater lakes · impoundments
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