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Record 1 2003-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A long, narrow straight-sided inlet of the sea in a coastline consisting of till or surrounded by terminal moraines, and typically produced by drowning of a subglacial valley along a low-lying coast, like that of the SE Jutland Peninsula.

OBS

Plural: förden.

OBS

förde: A Danish term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
CONT

Dans le Schleswig-Holstein, les Förde, échancrures du littoral, sont typiques de la côte de la Baltique, alors qu'une côte de plages et de cordons littoraux en voie de régularisation prédomine dans le Mecklembourg-Poméranie occidentale.

Spanish

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