Its most common shape is that of a long ribbon (ribbon lake).

A ribbon lake is one of a number of glacial landscapes.

Coniston Water is an example of a ribbon lake formed by glaciation.

Terminal moraines have blocked some rivers, producing long ribbon lakes.

Which seems to be the longest of these Scottish fjords, and of the ribbon lakes?

A ribbon lake, Lake Washington is long, narrow and finger-like.

The increase in power can create a trough, which is filled with water from a river/meltwater to create a ribbon lake.

A ribbon lake may also occur if a tributary glacier joins a main glacier.

Long thin ribbon lakes have formed.

What examples of fjords, and ribbon lakes, can you find on an atlas map of Scotland?

Windermere is a ribbon lake.

Ribbon lakes are excavated by glaciers.

Llyn Ogwen is a ribbon lake in north-west Wales.

A ribbon lake or loch is a long and narrow, finger-shaped lake, usually found in a glacial trough.

It is a ribbon lake formed in a glacial trough after the retreat of ice at the start of the current interglacial.

Ribbon lakes, such as Lough Dan and the lakes of Glendalough, also formed.

(Ribbon lakes are long, narrow and finger-like.)

A ribbon lake may also form behind a terminal or recessional moraine, both of which also act as dams, enabling water to accumulate behind them.

The valley dammed by the moraine may then flood creating a lake which may twist and turn, which is termed a ribbon lake.

The mountains owe much of their present topography to the effects of the last ice age, which deepened the valleys and created corrie and ribbon lakes.

Trout Lake in the interior of British Columbia is a ribbon lake located south-east of Revelstoke.

Examples of ribbon lakes are: Windermere, Panguipulli, Coniston Water, Lake Washington and Wastwater.

Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish (which are ribbon lakes), Hood Canal, and the main Puget Sound basin were carved out by glacial forces.

Along what are generally coastal dunes at ocean's edge are ribbon lakes from which water discharges into the ocean either through seepage or channels which cut through the dunes.

Gwiazda Lake is a ribbon lake situated in Pomeranian Voivodeship in Bytów County; in Bytów Lakeland.