The Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes in New York are the result of:

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The Great Lakes and Finger Lakes in New York are a result of scouring by continental ice sheets during the Ice Age. The movement of these glaciers carved out basins that were later filled with water, forming the lakes we see today. Isostasy is the balancing of Earth's crust on the underlying mantle, and while it can play a role in the formation of some landforms, it is not the cause of the Great Lakes or the Finger Lakes. Fjords are deep, narrow coastal inlets formed by glaciation, but the Great Lakes and Finger Lakes are not fjords.