"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."[1][2][3] Where one end of a finger lake is drowned by the sea, it becomes a
fjord or
sea-loch.
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