Lacustrine landforms

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thumb|A freshwater swamp in Florida, [[United States]]

closed drainage basin that retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water

step-like landform

depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceed recharge

lake formed by a glacier or moraine

beach or wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the sea level

elliptical depressions concentrated along the Atlantic seaboard of North America

closed, drainless depression