The list of lakes of Sweden contains the major lakes in the nation of
Sweden. However, Sweden has over 97,500 lakes larger than 2 acres (8,100 m2), so the list is not comprehensive.[1] The great number of lakes in southern Sweden could according to
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst be indebted to the creation of basins due to the stripping of an irregular mantle of
weathered rock by
glacier erosion.[2]
^Lidmar-Bergström, K.; Olsson, S.; Roaldset, E. (1999). "Relief features and palaeoweathering remnants in formerly glaciated Scandinavian basement areas". In Thiry, Médard; Simon-Coinçon, Régine (eds.). Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits. Special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists. Vol. 27. Blackwell Science Ltd. pp. 275–301.
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