This is a landscape composed of lakes that is formed by damming of river channels with glacial deposits. A glacier-dammed lake is a type of alpine lake. Examples are the dammed lakes in Bomi County, Tibet, and Tianshan Tianchi in Xinjiang Province (Fig. 18).
Glacier-dammed lake landscape at Guxiangcuo, Tibet
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(2020). Glacier-Dammed 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_918
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