Proglacial lake

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In geology, a proglacial lake (ice-marginal lake), is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice.

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