Lake Pasteur
Lake Pasteur (french: Lac Pasteur) is a long and narrow fjord-like lake in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. Location Lake Pasteur is long and less than wide, with an area of . Its surface elevation is above sea level. The lake is extremely elongated, as are Lake Walker Lake Walker is a lake in Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality in the region of Côte-Nord, about 30 km northwest of Port-Cartier. Location Lake Walker is within the Port-Cartier–Sept-Îles W ... and Lake Quatre Lieues in the same watershed. The Pasteur River (Quebec), Pasteur River enters the north end of the lake, and leaves the south end to join the Aux Rochers River. Lake Pasteur is in the unorganized territory of Lac-Walker, Quebec, Lac-Walker, in the Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality. The lake is about north of Shelter Bay, Quebec, Shelter Bay, now Port-Cartier, on the shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Its name is mentioned in t ...
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Fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Ireland, Kamchatka, the Kerguelen Islands, Labrador, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Nunavut, Quebec, the Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile, Russia, South Georgia Island, Tasmania, United Kingdom, and Washington state. Norway's coastline is estimated to be long with its nearly 1,200 fjords, but only long excluding the fjords. Formation A true fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by ice segregation and abrasion of the surrounding bedrock. According to the standard model, glaciers formed in pre-glacial valleys with a gently sloping valley floor. The work of the glacier then left an overdeepened U-shaped valley that ends abruptly at a valley or trough end. Such valleys are fjords when ...
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