Finger lake

For other uses, see Finger Lake.

"Trough lake" redirects here. For the lake in Antarctica, see Trough Lake.

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

Finger lakes in New York state, seen from the International Space Station

Examples

Italy

• Italian Lakes

New Zealand

Lake Wakatipu and The Remarkables

• Lake Wakatipu, Otago, South Island.

United Kingdom

England

• Many of the lakes of the Lake District are finger lakes.

Scotland

Loch Maree

• Many lochs of Scotland are finger lakes. Some like Loch Broom and Loch Maree form fjord and finger lake systems.

Wales

• Many of the Welsh llynnoedd.

United States

• Finger Lakes, New York State

See also

• Zungenbecken
• Lakes portal

Literature

• Hamblin, P.F. and Carmack, E.C., 1978. River‐induced currents in a Fjord Lake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 83(C2), pp. 885–899.
• Kotlyakov, Vladimir and Anna Komarova, Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 978-0-444-51042-6.
• Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, 1984. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.