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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.
Lake Lahontan, during this most recent glacial period, would have been one of the largest lakes in North America. [5] Climate change around the end of the Pleistocene epoch led to a gradual desiccation of ancient Lake Lahontan. The lake had largely disappeared in its extended form by about 9,000 years ago.
At these sizes it was one of the largest pluvial lakes in the southwestern United States during the late Pleistocene. [2] Most of the lake was located in Mexico, with only a bay between the West Potrillo Mountains and the Tres Hermanas Mountains extending into New Mexico. [3] At highstand, Lake Palomas contained the islands Unión and Santa María.
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).