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Tarn (lake)
Mountain lake or pool in a glacial cirque / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Tarns" redirects here. For the hamlet in England, see Tarns, Cumbria.
A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake, pond or pool, formed in a cirque (or "corrie") excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn.[1]
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