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glacial lake
Sign in to savelake formed by a melted glacier
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- lake
- Image
- Chola Lake, Nepal, Himalayas.jpg
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- Commons category
- Glacial lakes
- topic's main category
- Category:Glacial lakes
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- Glacial lake
- equivalent class
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000488
- has cause
- glacier
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000488
- P8168
- Fernando Ocáriz
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Encyclopedic overview
The Great Lakes as seen from space. The Great Lakes are the largest glacial lakes in the world. The prehistoric glacial Lake Agassiz once held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today. A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier.
Formation
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “glacial lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.