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Gudbrandsdalen

Valleys

Gudbrandsdalen is a valley and traditional district in Norway's Innlandet county, running roughly 230 kilometers northwest from Lillehammer toward the Romsdalen valley and drained by the Gudbrandsdalslagen river between Lake Lesjaskogsvatnet and Lake Mjosa. The valley began as a river cut, fluvial landform long before the Scandinavian Mountains were uplifted, and was later reshaped by Quaternary glaciers, and as the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet retreated at the end of the last ice age a large but short lived ice dammed lake formed within it.

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Quaternary, Eras
Source Gudbrandsdalen (Wikipedia)

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Erosion, Processes

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Erosion via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Gudbrandsdalen
Glaciation, Processes
Source Gudbrandsdalen (Wikipedia)

In Discipline

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Gudbrandsdalen
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Source Wikidata: Gudbrandsdalen
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Gudbrandsdalen (Wikipedia)
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    Gudbrandsdalen (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈɡʉ̂dbrɑnsˌdɑːɫn̩] or Urban East Norwegian: [ˈɡʉ̂(d)brɑnsˌdɑːɳ]; English: Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland county).
  • Associated With: Quaternary, Article text, age Quaternary
    Only millions of year later was the valley re-shaped by glaciers during the Quaternary period.
  • Caused By: Glaciation, Article text, process Glaciation
    Only millions of year later was the valley re-shaped by glaciers during the Quaternary period.
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Wikidata: Gudbrandsdalen
Wikidata Q1292655, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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