A long, narrow, deep coastal inlet with steep walls, carved where a glacier flowing to the sea eroded a U-shaped valley well below sea level, which then flooded with seawater once the ice retreated. Norway, Chile and New Zealand's fjord coastlines are among the world's most striking results of this landform-carving process.
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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.
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