Glacial Erosion

The valley was formed not only through glacial erosion but by the high pressure meltwater which pushed its way beneath the ice.

The volume of the whole Sognefjorden including its various branches is about 500 cubic kilometres (120 cu mi), while the total volume of rock eroded by glaciers from the entire Sognefjord system and adjacent valleys is about 4,000 cubic kilometres (960 cu mi).

The lake basin was carved out of soft, weak Silurian-age rocks by the Wisconsin ice sheet during the last ice age.

It was part of glacial Lake McConnell in the pre-glacial valleys reshaped by ice erosion during the Pleistocene.

During the Pleistocene glaciations the depression was partially stripped of its sedimentary rock fill by glacial overdeepening.

formed, like almost all lakes in northern Europe, through the carving activity of the inland ice sheets in the latter part of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago

The southeastern part of the Vänern is a depression that appears to have been formed by erosion of Paleozoic-aged sedimentary rock during the Quaternary glaciation.

Modern relief, eminences, were formed by glacial scouring.

The glaciers debouch into the lake at these sites, making "trenches" in the bedrock.

The lake depression consists of several glacial valleys carved out along faults and Miocene valleys that were later dammed by moraines.

Most of the soil covering this substrate was scraped by glaciers during the Ice Ages of antiquity, especially in northern Scandinavia, where the Baltic Shield is closest to the surface of the land.

Nærøyfjord was formed by glacial erosion during the Quaternary ice ages.

The fjord was carved by the action of glaciers in the ice ages and was flooded by the sea when the later glaciers retreated.

A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake, pond or pool, formed in a cirque (or "corrie") excavated by a glacier.

Peninsulas can be formed by continental drift, glacial erosion, glacial meltwater, glacial deposition, marine sediment, marine transgressions, volcanoes, divergent boundaries or river sedimentation.

Its steep sidewalls bear striations carved by moving ice, while depressions created by glacial movement hold numerous lakes.

Lake Geneva is divided into three parts because of its different types of formation (tectonic folding, glacial erosion, sedimentation)

A pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn in extreme cases, is an angular, sharply pointed mountain peak which results from cirque erosion caused by multiple glaciers diverging from a central point.

In physical geography, a fjord ( FYORD, fee-ORD; also spelled fiord, a variant most common in New Zealand English) is a long, relatively narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs in a valley created by a former glacier, which has since become inundated with water.

The lower half of the river is a tidal estuary, deeper than the body of water into which it flows, occupying the Hudson Fjord, an inlet that was carved out by North American glaciers.

Loch Ness lies along the Great Glen Fault, which forms a line of weakness in the rocks which has been excavated by glacial erosion, forming the Great Glen and the basins of Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and Loch Ness.

The park contains the Harding Icefield, one of the largest ice fields in the United States, and is named for the numerous fjords carved by glaciers moving down the mountains from the ice field.