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The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose direct surface runoff and watersheds form a large drainage basin that feeds into the lakes.
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 Great Lakes region takes its name from the corresponding geological formation of the Great Lakes Basin, a narrow watershed encompassing the Great Lakes, bounded by watersheds to the region's north by the Hudson Bay, to the west by the Mississippi, and to the east and south by the Ohio.
The Great Lakes Commission is a United States interstate agency established in 1955 through the Great Lakes Basin Compact, in order to "promote the orderly, integrated and comprehensive development, use and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin," [1] which includes the Saint Lawrence River. The Great Lakes Commission ...
The Great Basin includes valleys, basins, lakes and mountain ranges of the Basin and Range Province. [ 20 ] The basin and range topography is the result of extension and thinning of the lithosphere , which is composed of crust and upper mantle .
Most lakes are not actually endorheic, but endorheic basins may not have standing water, or have water only seasonally. The most significant endorheic basins are these: Great Basin covering most of Nevada, the western part of Utah, and smaller amounts of other U.S. states; Great Divide Basin on the Continental Divide in Wyoming; Guzmán Basin
From multicolored rock cliffs to towering sand dunes, there's no shortage of beauty all around the Great Lakes.
Map of Pleistocene lakes in the Great Basin of western North America. Chronology of Lake Bonneville. “Calibrated ages” are approximate calendar years before present (A.D. 1950). Elevations are adjusted for differential isostatic rebound in the basin.