This landscape is composed of water-filled depressions that is formed by glacial erosion. In alpine or high-latitude areas, abrasion and plucking create depressions that, when filled with water, form ice-scoured lakes. In general, the lake basins are made up of hard bedrock, and the basin’s walls and bottom often have polished surfaces, deep glacial striations and scars (Fig. 9).
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(2020). Ice-Scoured Lake Landscape. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_1136
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