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Encyclopedia > List of prehistoric lakes

This a partial list of prehistoric lakes.

See also List of prehistoric lakes External Links Michigan State University, Dept. ... Glacial Lake Duluth Glacial Lake Duluth was a lake that formed in the vicinity of Lake Superior as the Laurentian Glacier retreated. ... Glacial Lake Iroquois was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. ... Glacial Lake Minong Glacial Lake Minong was a lake that formed in the vicinity of Lake Superior as the Laurentian Glacier retreated. ... Glacial Lake Missoula was a prehistoric proglacial lake in western Montana that existed periodically at the end of the last ice age between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago. ... Glacial Lake Passaic was prehistoric proglacial lake that existed in northern New Jersey in the United States at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. ... Glacial Lake Tonawanda was a prehistoric lake that existed approximately 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, in western New York and in the United States. ... Glacial Lake Wisconsin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed approximately 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, in the central part of present-day Wisconsin in the United States. ... A map of the extent of Lake Agassiz Lake Agassiz was an immense lake—bigger than all of the present-day Great Lakes combined—in the center of North America, which was fed by glacial runoff at the end of the last ice age. ... A butte in the Great Salt Lake Desert Lake Bonneville was a prehistoric pluvial lake that covered much of North Americas Great Basin region. ... Extent of prehistoric Lake Lahontan For the modern reservoir, see Lake Lahontan (reservoir) Ancient Lake Lahontan was an enormous endorheic lake that existed during the ice age, covering much of northwestern Nevada, extending into northeastern California and southern Oregon. ... The Lake Manly lake system as it might have looked during its last maximum extent 22,000 years ago. ... Lake Makgadikgadi is an ancient lake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. ...

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