Named narrow, deep inlets of the sea carved by glacial action and bordered by steep terrain. No live bodyofwater entity sits here yet; minted as scaffolding for the width phase. Belongs here: a named fjord. Does not belong here: an ordinary river estuary with no glacial origin, held under Estuaries and Deltas.
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Fjord, ocean-flooded valley sentenceQuote, Fjord, ocean-flooded valley sentence
Such valleys are fjords when flooded by the ocean.
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