Finger lake

For other uses, see Finger Lake.

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

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

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.

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.