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  2. Lake Agassiz - Wikipedia

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    When Lake Agassiz existed, the gap was the outlet to River Warren. The outflow from the melting glaciers filled Lake Agassiz and then drained through the gap to the Gulf of Mexico. This mass of moving water eroded a valley 2–5 kilometres (1.2–3.1 mi) wide and from 100 to 125 feet (30 to 38 m) deep.

  3. List of prehistoric lakes - Wikipedia

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    Great Basin of California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon & Idaho: Lake Lahontan; 12,700 – 9,000 YBP in Nevada, California and Oregon. Lake Alvord in Oregon and Nevada; Lake Amboy in California; Lake Bonneville; 32,000 – 14,500 YBP in Utah and Idaho and Nevada. [32] Lake Carpenter in Nevada; Lake Chewaucan in Oregon; Lake Clover in Nevada; Lake Dixie ...

  4. Paleoflooding - Wikipedia

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    At the time, Lake Agassiz was the largest lake in North America, and it intermittently expelled massive volumes of water. For perspective, it periodically covered over one million km 2 , and was often larger than 150,000 km 2 over its 4000-year history.

  5. Glacial River Warren - Wikipedia

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    Lake Agassiz was formed from the meltwaters of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Wisconsin glaciation of the last ice age. Agassiz was an enormous body of water, up to 600–700 ft (180–210 m) deep, and at various times covering areas totaling over 110,000 sq mi (280,000 km 2). [3]

  6. Meltwater pulse 1B - Wikipedia

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    Postglacial Sea level Rise Curve and Meltwater Pulses (MWP) Meltwater pulse 1B (MWP1b) is the name used by Quaternary geologists, paleoclimatologists, and oceanographers for a period of either rapid or just accelerated post-glacial sea level rise that some hypothesize to have occurred between 11,500 and 11,200 years ago at the beginning of the Holocene and after the end of the Younger Dryas. [1]

  7. Shocking before-and-after photos show California's famed ...

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    Images from NASA underscore the dramatic change in water quality at the Northern California tourist destination. Clear Lake is in Lake County about 120 miles north of San Francisco.

  8. Western Interior Seaway - Wikipedia

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    The map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.

  9. Three friends drove from California to Mexico for a surfing ...

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    Read more:Bodies found in Baja California during search for missing tourists, Mexican officials say Several troubling clues suggested the men may have been the victims of violence.