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Lake Lahontan was a large endorheic prehistoric lake during the Pleistocene that occupied modern northwestern Nevada and extended into northeastern California and southern Oregon. The area of the former lake is a large portion of the Great Basin that borders the Sacramento River watershed to the west.
Lahontan State Recreation Area is a public recreation area surrounding Lake Lahontan, a 17-mile-long (27 km) impoundment of the Carson River, [4] located approximately 18 miles (29 km) west of Fallon, Nevada. [5] The reservoir features 69 miles (111 km) of shoreline and 11,200 acres (4,500 ha) of water when full. [6]
Modern Lake Lahontan is a reservoir on the Carson River in northwest Nevada in the United States. It is formed by the Lahontan Dam , built in 1905 by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Newlands Reclamation Act and is located between Fallon, Nevada and Carson City, Nevada .
The Lahontan Valley is a basin in Churchill County, Nevada, United States. [1] The valley is a landform of the central portion of the prehistoric Lake Lahontan's lakebed of 20,000-9,000 years ago. The valley and the adjacent Carson Sink represent a small portion of the lake bed. Humboldt Lake is to the valley's northeast. Pyramid Lake is west.
The Lahontan Dam was built by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Newlands Project. It is an earthen structure, 162 ft (49 m) high by 1,700 ft (520 m) long and contains 733,000 cu yd (560,000 m 3 ) of fill.
Maybe a big group of them, their colors contrasted against the drab brown of the lake bottom. The fish are Lahontan cutthroat trout, a species native to the Great Basin of California, Nevada and ...
Cave Lake State Park: White Pine: 4,063 1,644: 7,198 2,194: 1973: Features a 32-acre (13 ha) reservoir in the northern Schell Creek Range. Dayton State Park: Lyon: 152 62: 4,360 1,330: 1977: Features a stretch of the Carson River and the site of an 1861 mill built to process silver ore from the Comstock Lode. Echo Canyon State Park: Lincoln ...
Lake Chippewa; 10,700 – 7,500 YBP, [1] covered the lowest elevations in the Lake Michigan basin forming a linear lake in the middle, linked by a narrow proto-Straits of Mackinac and the Mackinac Falls to Lake Stanley. [1] Lake Chicago; 14,000 – 11,000 YBP [1] along the southern shore and growing slowly northward. Lake Superior basin