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Pleistocene pluvial lakes and rivers of the Mojave Desert Pluvial Lake Manix sediments (Pleistocene) in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Ice Age pluvial lakes in the western United States A pluvial lake is a body of water that accumulated in a basin because of a greater moisture availability resulting from changes in temperature and ...
Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America. It was a pluvial lake that formed in response to an increase in precipitation and a decrease in evaporation as a result of cooler temperatures.
Lake Modoc was a pluvial lake that existed during the Pleistocene in basins formed by faulting and volcanism. It covered a length of 120 kilometres (75 mi) from south of Tule Lake in California to near present-day Fort Klamath in Oregon, its waters reaching an elevation of about 1,292 metres (4,239 ft) above sea level and covering an area of about 2,839 square kilometres (1,096 sq mi) [1] with ...
Lake Agassiz (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə s i / AG-ə-see) was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period.
These basins became lakes or were invaded by the ocean. The Baltic Sea [33] [34] and the Great Lakes of North America [35] were formed primarily in this way. [dubious – discuss] The numerous lakes of the Canadian Shield, Sweden, and Finland are thought to have originated at least partly from glaciers' selective erosion of weathered bedrock ...
Lake Estancia was the easternmost pluvial lake in Southwestern North America. [ 78 ] Distinct shoreline landforms in the Estancia Valley occur at various elevations, including bars , beaches , [ 79 ] [ 80 ] gravel deposits, ridges, [ 81 ] scarps , [ 82 ] spits , [ 79 ] swales , [ 81 ] terraces and wave-cut cliffs . [ 79 ]
Lake Manly was a pluvial lake in Death Valley, California.It forms occasionally in Badwater Basin after heavy rainfall, but at its maximum extent during the so-called "Blackwelder stand," ending approximately 120,000 years before present, the lake covered much of Death Valley with a surface area of 1,600 square kilometres (620 sq mi).
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).