Glacial lake, the Glossary
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity.[1]
Table of Contents
67 relations: Alps, Aragonese language, Arctic tern, Argentino Lake, Boron, Bucura Lake, Bulgaria, Chatter mark, Climate change, Drainage basin, Drumlin, Dudipatsar, England, Erosion, Esker, Gazey, Glacial Lake Missoula, Glacial lake outburst flood, Glacial period, Glacial striation, Glacier, Halogen, Hill, Holocene climatic optimum, Ice age, Italy, Jökulsárlón, Kaghan Valley, Katora Lake, Kumrat Valley, Kuyavia, Lake Como, Lake District, Lake Kaniere, Lake Saiful Muluk, Landform, Last Glacial Period, Little Ice Age, Lombardy, Maritsa, Montana, Moraine, Moraine-dammed lake, Mudrock, Musala, Neelum District, New Zealand, Pakistan, Parasitic jaeger, Perito Moreno Glacier, ... Expand index (17 more) »
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Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
Aragonese language
Aragonese (in Aragonese) is a Romance language spoken in several dialects by about 12,000 people as of 2011, in the Pyrenees valleys of Aragon, Spain, primarily in the comarcas of Somontano de Barbastro, Jacetania, Alto Gállego, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza/Ribagorça.
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Arctic tern
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae.
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Argentino Lake
Lago Argentino is a lake in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, at.
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Boron
Boron is a chemical element; it has symbol B and atomic number 5.
Bucura Lake
Lake Bucura is a glacier cirque lake, situated in the Retezat Mountains, in Romania.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
Chatter mark
In glacial geology, a chatter mark is a wedge-shaped mark (usually of a series of such marks) left by chipping of a bedrock surface by rock fragments carried in the base of a glacier (glacial plucking).
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
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Drumlin
A drumlin, from the Irish word ("little ridge"), first recorded in 1833, in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine. Glacial lake and drumlin are glacial landforms.
Dudipatsar
Dudipatsar Lake (دودی پت سر جھیل), also known as Dudipat Lake, is a lake encircled by snow-clad peaks in Lulusar-Dudipatsar National Park.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Esker
An esker, eskar, eschar, or os, sometimes called an asar, osar, or serpent kame, is a long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America.
Gazey
Gazey is a peak in the Pirin mountain, Bulgaria situated on a small sideward ridge of the Polejansli Ridge.
Glacial Lake Missoula
Lake Missoula was a prehistoric proglacial lake in western Montana that existed periodically at the end of the last ice age between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago.
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Glacial lake outburst flood
A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a type of outburst flood caused by the failure of a dam containing a glacial lake. Glacial lake and glacial lake outburst flood are glacial lakes.
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Glacial period
A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.
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Glacial striation
Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
Halogen
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Hill
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.
Holocene climatic optimum
The Holocene Climate Optimum (HCO) was a warm period in the first half of the Holocene epoch, that occurred in the interval roughly 9,500 to 5,500 years BP, with a thermal maximum around 8000 years BP.
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Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jökulsárlón
Jökulsárlón (literally "glacial river lagoon") is a large glacial lake in southern part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland. Glacial lake and Jökulsárlón are glacial lakes.
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Kaghan Valley
The Kaghan Valley (Hindko, وادی کاغان) is an alpine valley in Balakot Tehsil, Mansehra District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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Katora Lake
Katora Lake is an alpine glacial lake located in the upper reaches of the Jahaz Banda, Kumrat Valley in the Upper Dir District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
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Kumrat Valley
Kumrat (کُمراٹ) is a valley in the Upper Dir District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
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Kuyavia
Kuyavia (Kujawy; Kujawien; Cuiavia), also referred to as Cuyavia, is a historical region in north-central Poland, situated on the left bank of Vistula, as well as east from Noteć River and Lake Gopło.
Lake Como
Lake Como (Lago di Como), also known as Lario, is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of, making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore. At over deep, it is the fifth-deepest lake in Europe and the deepest outside Norway; the bottom of the lake is below sea level.
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Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England.
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Lake Kaniere
Lake Kaniere is a glacial lake located on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, nearly 200 m deep and surrounded on three sides by mountains and mature rimu forest.
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Lake Saiful Muluk
Saiful Muluk (جھیل سیف الملوک) is a mountainous lake in northern Pakistan, located at the northern end of the Kaghan Valley, near the town of Naran in the Saiful Muluk National Park.
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Landform
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.
Last Glacial Period
The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.
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Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region.
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Lombardy
Lombardy (Lombardia; Lombardia) is an administrative region of Italy that covers; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population.
Maritsa
Maritsa or Maritza (Марица), also known as Evros (Έβρος) and Meriç (Meriç), is a river that runs through the Balkans in Southeast Europe.
Montana
Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet. Glacial lake and moraine are glacial landforms.
Moraine-dammed lake
A moraine-dammed lake, occurs when the terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley. Glacial lake and moraine-dammed lake are lakes by type.
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Mudrock
Mudrocks are a class of fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks.
Musala
Musala (Мусала); from Arabic through Ottoman Turkish: from Musalla, "near God" or "place for prayer" is the highest peak in the Rila Mountains, as well as in Bulgaria and the entire Balkan Peninsula, standing at.
Neelum District
Neelum (spelt also Neelam; نیلم) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Parasitic jaeger
The parasitic jaeger (North America) or Arctic skua (Europe) (Stercorarius parasiticus), is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
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Perito Moreno Glacier
The Perito Moreno Glacier is a glacier located in Los Glaciares National Park in southwest Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, and originated in the Magallanes Region in Chile.
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Pirin
The Pirin Mountains (Пирин) are a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria, with the highest peak, Vihren, at an altitude of.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Proglacial lake
In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice. Glacial lake and proglacial lake are glacial lakes.
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Ratti Gali Lake
Ratti Gali Lake is an alpine glacial lake which is located in Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
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Rila
Rila (Рила) is the highest mountain range of Bulgaria, the Balkan Peninsula, and Southeast Europe.
Rock flour
Rock flour, or glacial flour, consists of fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Samodivski Lakes
The Samodivski Lakes is a small group of lakes in Pirin, southwestern Bulgaria, part of the larger group of Popovski lakes.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Subglacial lake
A subglacial lake is a lake that is found under a glacier, typically beneath an ice cap or ice sheet.
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Tasman Lake
Tasman Lake is a proglacial lake formed by the recent retreat of the Tasman Glacier in New Zealand's South Island.
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Tena Valley
The Tena Valley is a valley located at the southern side of the Pyrenees, in the Alto Gállego comarca, province of Huesca, and is crossed by the Gállego river from north to south.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Valyavishki Lakes
The Valyavishki Lakes is a group of lakes in the northern part of the Pirin National Park in southwestern Bulgaria and includes 10 lakes.
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Vatnajökull
Vatnajökull (Icelandic pronunciation:, literally "Glacier of Lakes"; sometimes translated as Vatna Glacier in English) is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and the second largest in area in Europe after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya.
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West Coast Region
The West Coast (lit) is a region of New Zealand on the west coast of the South Island.
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Zungenbecken
A Zungenbecken, also called a tongue basin or tongue-basin, is part of a succession of ice age geological landforms, known as a glacial series. Glacial lake and Zungenbecken are glacial landforms.
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See also
Lakes by type
- Alpine lake
- Amictic lake
- Ancient lake
- Artificial lakes
- Bathing lake
- Boating lake
- Coastal reservoir
- Dimictic lake
- Dystrophic lake
- Endorheic lakes
- Finger lake
- Flash (lake)
- Glacial lake
- Glacial lakes
- Gloe lake
- Holomictic lake
- Karst lake
- Lake bifurcation
- Meromictic lake
- Meromictic lakes
- Monomictic lake
- Moraine-dammed lake
- Oxbow lake
- Oxbow lakes
- Pink lake
- Pluvial lake
- Polymictic lake
- Prairie lake
- Quarry lake
- Reservoir
- Reservoirs
- Ribbon lake
- Rift lake
- Rift lakes
- Saline lakes
- Soda lake
- Volcanogenic lake
- Volcanogenic lakes
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_lake
Also known as Glacial Lakes, Glacier lake.
, Pirin, Poland, Proglacial lake, Ratti Gali Lake, Rila, Rock flour, Romania, Samodivski Lakes, Spain, Subglacial lake, Tasman Lake, Tena Valley, United States, Valyavishki Lakes, Vatnajökull, West Coast Region, Zungenbecken.