Artificial lake impounded using a dam or lock to store water.
1 The Tigris pours into the Mosul Dam Lake .
2 A frozen dammed lake is 10% less likely to be crossed than a natural lake.
3 Basically a dammed lake is like a giant battery, storing water to use when electricity is needed.
4 The overflow of the glacier dammed lakes at the head of the dale came down Newton Dale and poured into Lake Pickering.
5 This year the rains failed, too, and a new Turkish dam threatens to reduce flows from the Tigris River into the Mosul Dam Lake .
6 They used so-called bouncing bombs, designed by Barnes Wallis, which skimmed the surface of the dam lakes before sinking at the walls and exploding.
7 And then 200,000 years ago, a catastrophic flood from an ice- dammed lake chopped off a bridge connecting Britain from the rest of mainland Europe.
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