Natural inland bodies of standing water, generally of appreciable size, occupying a depression in the Earth's surface. [Adapted from Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]
This category is also used for beaver ponds, crater lakes, dry lakes, fish ponds, fishponds, inland seas, intermittent lakes, intermittent oxbow lakes, intermittent ponds, intermittent pools, intermittent salt lakes, intermittent salt ponds, lagoons, laguna, lake beds, lochs, millponds, oxbow lakes, ponds, pools (water bodies), salt evaporation ponds, salt lakes, salt ponds, and tarns.
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