Less commonly the lake may have its waters ponded by two natural dams of glacial débris, one across a valley at each end of a lake.
Thus, when the great glacier was melting in northern New York, waters hundreds of feet deep and many miles long were ponded between two ice lobes--one retreating eastward and the other westward from the Mohawk Valley.
Extensive glacial filling and ponded waters in the region of the present sources of Still River.
During this period, the drainage was ponded between the ice front and the Umpog-Saugatuck divide.
Although the ponded water extended only a short distance up the steeper side valleys, it extended several miles up the main stream.
Drift forms the divide at the western end of Still River valley beyond Mill Plain, but the ponded water which it caused did not extend as far as Danbury (see discussion of Still-Croton valley).
The waters of Rocky River were ponded until the outlet near Jerusalem was uncovered and the disappearance of ice from the ravine below allowed an escape to the Housatonic.
The outlet was established across the old divide, and as the gorge by which the water escaped was cut down, the level of the ponded waters was lowered.
When Rocky River was thus ponded its lowest outlet was found to be at the head of its eastern fork.
For a while the water was so effectually ponded back by this as to form a lake, which has since become filled up with sediment and accumulations of peat.
Afterwards, when the Mohawk had been closed by ice, the vast amount ofponded water was compelled to seek a temporary outlet over the lower passages leading into the Susquehanna or into the Alleghany.
Not only the Chagres itself but its tributaries, the Trinidad and others, are thus ponded back.
The first group occurs most commonly in ponded conditions or in slowly flowing streams.
The ponded conditions prevalent in that year were conducive to production and survival of young black bullheads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ponded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
