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A map of the Great Lakes Basin showing the five sub-basins. Left to right they are: Superior (magenta); Michigan (cyan); Huron (green); Erie (yellow); Ontario (red). Though the five lakes lie in separate basins, they form a single, naturally interconnected body of fresh water, within the Great Lakes Basin. As a chain of lakes and rivers, they ...
Glacial lakes of the Sawtooth National Forest (1 C, 99 P) Pages in category "Glacial lakes of the United States" The following 96 pages are in this category, out of 96 total.
1 North America. Toggle North America subsection ... This a partial list of glacial moraines. ... Moraines south of the Great Lakes Lake Huron Basin. Port Huron [4 ...
Great Lakes (30 C, 67 P) K. Kettle lakes (6 C) P. Proglacial lakes (58 P) S. ... Pages in category "Glacial lakes" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of ...
Glacial lakes of Russia (3 P) S. Glacial lakes of Slovenia (1 P) U. Glacial lakes of the United States (3 C, 96 P) This page was last edited on 28 June 2023, at 12:53 ...
During the Late Pleistocene, the Laurentide ice sheet reached from the Rocky Mountains eastward through the Great Lakes, into New England, covering nearly all of Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. [8] Three major ice centers formed in North America: the Labrador, Keewatin, and Cordilleran. The Cordilleran covered the region from the Pacific ...
Kettle lakes form when a retreating glacier leaves behind an underground or surface chunk of ice that later melts to form a depression containing water. Moraine-dammed lakes occur when glacial debris dam a stream (or snow runoff). Jackson Lake and Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park are examples of moraine-dammed lakes, though Jackson Lake ...
Lake Algonquin is an example of a proglacial lake that existed in east-central North America at the time of the last ice age. Parts of the former lake are now Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and inland portions of northern Michigan. [1] Examples in Great Britain include Lake Lapworth, Lake Harrison and Lake Pickering.