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Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. A moraine-dammed lake, occurs when the terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley. When a glacier retreats, there is a space left over between the retreating glacier and the piece that stayed intact which holds leftover debris . Meltwater from both glaciers seep into this space creating a ...
Tarn—a proglacial lake impounded by the terminal moraine of the retreating Schoolroom Glacier in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming 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 ...
Moraine-dammed lake – Type of lake formed by glaciation; Terminal moraine – Type of moraine that forms at the terminal of a glacier; Rogen moraine – Landform of ridges deposited by a glacier or ice sheet transverse to ice flow; Kame; Moraine examples. Dogger Bank – Large sandbank in the North Sea; Kettle Moraine – Large moraine in ...
Moraine-dammed lakes occur when glacial debris dam a stream (or snow runoff). Jackson Lake and Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park are examples of moraine-dammed lakes, though Jackson Lake is enhanced by a man-made dam. Kettle lake: Depression, formed by a block of ice separated from the main glacier, in which the lake forms
That moraine is about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) wide, separating the lake from the sea. There is a short river that runs through the moraine which drains the lake into the fjord. The lake Farris is a drinking water reservoir for about 170,000 people in the region. [2] The largest island in the lake is Bjørnøya, located just east of the village of ...
South Lhonak Lake is a glacial-moraine-dammed lake, located in Sikkim's far northwestern region. [2] It is one of the fastest expanding lakes in the Sikkim Himalaya region, and one of the 14 potentially dangerous lakes susceptible to Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOFs).
Chorabari Lake, also known as Gandhi Sarovar, was a glacial lake at the snout of the Chorabari Glacier at an altitude of 3,900 m (12,800 ft). It was about 2 km (1.2 mi) upstream from the town of Kedarnath in the Indian state of Uttarakhand , part of the Mandakini River system.
Rifflsee is a lake of Tyrol, Austria. [2] It is the largest lake in the Ötztal Alps. The mountain lake is located in the Kaunergrat west of the Pitztal and is a typical moraine reservoir. The lake fills an extensive valley, the glacier-turbid water looks greenish.