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A glacier's brutal signature carved in stone, then drowned by the sea returning to claim it.
means A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between steep cliffs, formed when a glacier gouges out a valley that later fills with seawater.
from Straight from Norwegian fjord, descended from Old Norse fjǫrðr, meaning a firth or inlet — the very same root that gives English 'firth' up in Scotland. Trace it back far enough and it's thought to spring from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to go across' or 'ford,' the idea being a place you cross or pass through by water. So the word for these drowned glacial canyons shares deep ancestry with the humble 'ford' where you wade across a stream.
- depth trick
- Often deeper than the open ocean nearby
- glacial origin
- Carved by ice, not rivers, over millennia
- deepest one
- Norway's Sognefjord plunges over 1,300 meters down
- oxygen trap
- Shallow mouths can starve deep water of oxygen
- word roots
- Norse term meaning 'where one crosses over'
geirangerfjord — norwegian fjord in møre og romsdal, unesco world heritage site with waterfalls and steep cliffs
sognefjord — longest fjord in norway at 205 km, extends inland from western coast near bergen
milford sound — fjord in fiordland national park, new zealand, with 1,692-meter mitre peak