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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.
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 ...
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
Glacial alpine lakes differ from other glacier-formed lakes in that they occur at higher altitudes and mountainous terrain usually at or above timberline. For example, the Great Lakes of the U.S. and Canada are formed by the retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last Ice Age which scoured the flat rock surface but are not in the alpine ...
Some of the largest glacial floods in North American history were from Lake Agassiz. [3] In modern times, the Hubbard Glacier regularly blocks the mouth of Russell Fjord at 60° north on the coast of Alaska. [4] A similar event takes place after irregular periods in the Perito Moreno Glacier, located in Patagonia.
Initially, the north flowing rivers followed the front of the glacier eastward and into a valley that passed between Garrison and Riverdale, to the Turtle Lake area, and on into Sheridan County. This is known as the preglacial McClean River. [2] This valley became blocked by the glacier and the glacial lake identified as Lake McKenzie formed.
The early Erie fed waters to Glacial Lake Iroquois. The ancient lake was similar in size to the current lake during glacial retreat, but for some period the eastern half of the lake was covered with ice. Early-period Lake Erie was made up of smaller lakes (Lakes Warren, Wayne, Maumee and Lundy) with lower depths.
Lake Lacawac is a glacial lake that was formed more than 13,000 years ago (at the end of the last ice age). More specifically, it is known as a scour lake because when the Wisconsin glacier passed through the area, it formed a crater in the sandstone. [6]