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What Are Fiords? How Are They Formed ? - Geography

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What are fiords? How are they formed?

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Fiords are narrow but deep inlets of water with steep sides that break and indent the coastline Scandinavian making it irregular. In the coastal regions, fiords have been formed because of the drowning of glacier valleys.

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