The carving of a deep, steep-walled coastal inlet as a glacier flowing to the sea erodes a U-shaped valley well below sea level, which then floods with seawater once the ice retreats. Norway, Chile and New Zealand's fjord coastlines are among the world's most striking results of this process.
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Process Type First Proposed Year Connections
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1. Fjord - Wikipedia
Formation sectionQuote, Formation section
A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by ice segregation and abrasion of the surrounding bedrock.
2. Jens Esmark - Wikipedia
Biography sectionQuote, Biography section
Professor Esmark theorized in 1824 that glaciers had once been larger and thicker and had covered much of Norway
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