Tarns of the Lake District: Difference between revisions

==Other types of tarn==

As already mentioned, tarns come in a variety of different shapes and forms, created from different processes, and serving different purposes. There are other types of tarns that can be seen across the Lake District, created at the same time of the last glacial period, but are neither of the cirque or areally scoured variety of tarns. They are home in the upper reaches of the fells, in many cases located in barren and sometimes challenging places. Notably, these are tarns located on rock ledges, on summits, in saddles, natural dam tarns, kettle hole tarns of the lowlands, drumlin field tarns and tarns situated in peat. That said, the best example of the latter two lie outside the boundary of the National Park.