It is of glacial origin, being a Moraine-dammed lake.

The lake was formed glacially and is an example of a moraine-dammed lake.

The moraine-dammed lake has a series of terraces above the current shoreline, marking former lake levels.

A moraine-dammed lake occurs when a terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley.

Moraine-dammed lakes occur when a stream (or snow runoff) is dammed by glacial till.

Within this ridge, a chain of moraine-dammed lakes constitutes the Pomeranian Lake District.

Elsewhere, a more common cause of jökulhlaups is the breaching of ice-dammed or moraine-dammed lakes.

Dr. Ives said both ice-dammed and moraine-dammed lakes exist in the Everest region.

Farris is a 20 km long fresh water moraine-dammed lake near the Norwegian coastal town Larvik.

Eidfjordvatnet is a moraine-dammed lake in the municipality of Eidfjord in Hordaland county, Norway.

All three lakes were created when the terminal moraines of receding glaciers blocked their respective valleys, forming moraine-dammed lakes.

Lough Gowna is a moraine-dammed lake formed at the end of the last glaciation, and owes its complex indented shape to the underlying drumlin landscape.

Many of the surrounding hills are parts of moraines and many of its lakes are moraine-dammed lakes.

Longbasaba and Pida lakes are two moraine-dammed lakes at an altitude of about 5700 m in the Chinese Himalayas.

This may occur due to tectonic uplift of the region, a lowering of the oceans, the collapse of a moraine-dammed lake downstream, or by capture of the river by another.

Dammed glacial meltwater from a moraine-dammed lake that is released suddenly can resulted in the floods that created the granite chasms in Purgatory Chasm State Reservation.

The Thulagi glacier, which is located in the Upper Marsyangdi River basin, is one out of the two moraine-dammed lakes (supra-glacial lakes), identified as a potentially dangerous lake.

Jackson Lake and Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park are examples of moraine-dammed lakes, although Jackson Lake is also enhanced by a man-made dam.

Rivers Tera, Cabreira and Bibei run through glacial valleys and the San Martín de Castañeda Lake, Laguna de Lacillo lakes are moraine-dammed lakes.

The ice receded during the temporary warming-which was coming to an end-and melted in the lowland fault valley, creating a large river and a long, moraine-dammed lake, but the plateau glacier on the highland they were crossing stayed frozen.