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Pond at Cornjum, Netherlands A man made pond at sunset in Montgomery County, Ohio. Stereoscopic image of a pond in Central City Park, Macon, GA, c. 1877. A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.
A sag pond is formed along a strike-slip fault, which may create a depression in the earth. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] When water enters the depression from rivers, streams, rainfall or snowfall, it fills the low-lying area, and a pond is the result.
Permafrost thaw ponds in Hudson Bay, Canada, in 2008. Thermokarst is a type of terrain characterised by very irregular surfaces of marshy hollows and small hummocks formed when ice-rich permafrost thaws. The land surface type occurs in Arctic areas, and on a smaller scale in mountainous areas such as the Himalayas and the Swiss Alps.
Verdi Lake in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada. The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn ("a small mountain lake without tributaries") meaning pond. In parts of Northern England – predominantly Cumberland and Westmorland (where there are 197), [2] but also areas of North Lancashire and North Yorkshire – 'tarn' is widely used as the name for small lakes or ponds, regardless of their ...
Natural salt pans are formed through geologic processes, where evaporating water leaves behind salt deposits. Some salt evaporation ponds are only slightly modified from their natural version, such as the ponds on Great Inagua in the Bahamas , or the ponds in Jasiira, a few kilometres south of Mogadishu , where seawater is trapped and left to ...
Upon the north side of Licking Creek, about six miles from the mouth are several salt licks or ponds formed by little streams or drains of water, clear but of bluish color and salt taste. The ...
A dew pond is an artificial pond usually sited on the top of a hill, intended for watering livestock. Dew ponds are used in areas where a natural supply of surface water may not be readily available. The name dew pond (sometimes cloud pond or mist pond) is first found in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1865. [1]
Swimming at Mendon Ponds was in a pond formed tens of thousands of years ago by glacial activity. A 1977 Upstate story about local “swimming holes” mentioned Mendon Ponds. “The swimming area ...