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22 lut 2018 · Paternoster lakes occur in a series down a formerly glaciated valley in small basins scooped out by the glacier as it retreated. The name suggests a similarity to beads on a rosary, and the lakes are often connected to one another by streams that run between them and down the valley.
1 sty 2014 · Definition. A series of lakes that are formed in the low depression of a U-shaped valley. Paternoster lakes are erosional landforms formed by scouring a valley bed that contains rocks of varying resistance.
When recessional moraines create a series of isolated basins in a glaciated valley, the resulting chain of lakes is called paternoster lakes. Lakes filled by glacial meltwater often looks milky due to finely ground material called rock flour suspended in the water.
A paternoster lake is one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system. The name comes from the word Paternoster, anothe...
3 kwi 2018 · Paternoster lakes. Paternoster lakes. By wetwebwork from london, U.K (Where we were headed) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. April 3, 2018 1103 × 917. Published in 14 Glaciers. An Introduction to Geology Proudly powered by WordPress.
Where a series of such lakes is strung out down a glacial valley, they are known as paternoster lakes. Tributary valleys joining a major glacial trough, unlike stream valleys, are quite commonly discordant, i.e., the floors of the tributary valleys “hang” above the floor of the main valley; the bigger the stream of ice, the greater is its ...
