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The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
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. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined. [2]
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
Numerous proglacial lakes formed in various places and configurations as the ice sheet advanced and retreated. [6] At various times, what is now Michigan–Huron was clearly separated into two or more lakes, and at other times was part of a single, deeper lake. Glacial Lake Algonquin and its Correlatives, approximately 11,000 years ago
The Great Lakes Waterway continues thence to Lake St. Clair; the Detroit River and Detroit, Michigan; into Lake Erie and thence – via Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River – to the Atlantic Ocean. Like the other Great Lakes, it was formed by melting ice as the continental glaciers retreated toward the end of the last ice age.
During the Late Pleistocene, the Laurentide ice sheet reached from the Rocky Mountains eastward through the Great Lakes, into New England, covering nearly all of Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. [8] Three major ice centers formed in North America: the Labrador, Keewatin, and Cordilleran. The Cordilleran covered the region from the Pacific ...
Today we are going to take a look at the 25 largest lakes in the US. Click to skip our introduction and methodology and jump to the top 10 largest lakes in the US. Do you like water-related ...
Brant RA, Herdendorf CE. 1972. Delineation of Great Lakes estuaries. Pages 710–718, in Proceedings 15the Conference on Great Lakes Research. International Association for Great Lakes Research. Calkin PE, Feenstra BH. 1985. Evolution of the Erie-basin Great Lakes. Pages 149–170, in Karrow PF, Calkin PE, eds. Quaternary Evolution of the Great ...