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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Seven Rila Lakes in Rila mountain, Bulgaria, are of glacial origin. The Great Lakes as seen from space. The Great Lakes are the largest glacial lakes in the world. The prehistoric glacial Lake Agassiz once held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today. A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity ...
The lake level remained at 640' above sea level, [3] but the ice margin was a third of the way north, opening a channel across Michigan, draining the Lake Saginaw and Lake Whittlesey proglacial lakes in the Lake Huron and Lake Erie basins. [4] Map of Glacial Lakes Duluth, Chicago, and Lundy (USGS 1915), the Chicago Outlet is lower left
Elephant Foot Glacier, a well-known Piedmont glacier in Romer Lake, northeastern Greenland. [19] Piedmont glaciers are a sub-type of valley glaciers which have flowed out onto lowland plains, where they spread out into a fan-like shape. [12] [16] Examples include: Malaspina Glacier, Alaska, United States; Endeavor Piedmont Glacier, Antarctica
This a partial list of glacial moraines. ... Moraines south of the Great Lakes Lake Huron Basin. Port Huron [4] Chesanings [4] West Haven; Henderson [4] Owosso [4]
List of lakes of the Sawtooth Mountains (Idaho) List of lakes of the White Cloud Mountains; Little Redfish Lake (White Cloud Mountains) Long Pond (Hancock County, Maine) Loon Lake (Lake County, Illinois) Lost Man Lake