List of prehistoric lakes

List of prehistoric lakes

This a partial list of prehistoric lakes. Although the form of the names below differ, the lists are alphabetized by the identifying name of the lake (e.g., Algonquin for Glacial Lake Algonquin).

North America

* In North America, where the Great Lakes are now:
** Glacial Lake Algonquin at Lake Huron
** Glacial Lake Baraboo, communicating with Glacial Lake Wisconsin [http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/science/2/chap8.htm here]
** Glacial Lake Chicago at the southern portion of Lake Michigan
** Lake Chippewa at Lake Michigan
** Glacial Lake Duluth at Lake Superior
** Glacial Lake Grantsburg, draining through the Saint Croix River, [http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/geolwisc/geostops/InterstateParkMN.HTM here]
** Glacial Lake Iroquois at Lake Ontario
** Glacial Lake Maumee at Lake Erie
** Glacial Lake Minong at Lake Superior
** Lake Stanley at Lake Huron
** Glacial Lake Wisconsin at Lake Michigan

* Elsewhere in North America:
** Glacial Lake Agassiz in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Minnesota, North Dakota
** Glacial Lake Albany in the valley of the Hudson River
** Lake Bonneville in Utah and Idaho and Nevada
** Lake Cahuilla in Southern California at the Salton Sea and today's cities of Indio, Mexicali, and El Centro, CA
** Glacial Lake Calvin in southeast Iowa
** Glacial Lake Columbia
** Lake Edmonton in Alberta
** Glacial Lake Hind in southwestern Manitoba
** Glacial Lake Hitchcock in the valley of the Connecticut River
** Lake Lahontan in Nevada
** Lubbock Lake in Texas (see Lubbock Lake Landmark)
** Lake Manly covered Death Valley
** Glacial Lake McConnell in Alberta, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan
** Glacial Lake Missoula in Montana
** Glacial Lake Ojibway in eastern Canada
** Glacial Lake Passaic in New Jersey
** Lake Peace in Alberta and British Columbia
** Glacial Lake Regina
** Glacial Lake Saginaw
** Glacial Lake Souris across North Dakota and Manitoba
** Glacial Lake Tight, named for William G. Tight
** Glacial Lake Tonawanda in New York state
** Glacial Lake Wisconsin in Wisconsin
** Glacial Lake Columbia in Central Washington State and preset day Lake Couer d' Alene
** Glacial Lake Snoqualmie in Washington State

Europe

* Lake Komi, a proglacial lake formed in the vicinity of the present-day Russian Komi Republic.
* Baltic Ice Lake, freshwater period of the Baltic Sea
* Ancylus Lake, freshwater period of the Baltic Sea
* Lake Harrison in the Midlands in England
* Lake Lapworth in Shropshire in England
* Orcadian Lakes of the Old Red Sandstone, Scotland
* Lake Pickering between the North York Moors and the Yorkshire Wolds in England
* Ebro endorheic lake system, in the Ebro Basin, (Spain)
* Duero endorheic lake system, in the Duero Basin, (Spain)
* Gjende Lake in the Jotunheimen Mountains of Norway

outh America

* Lake Ballivián in South America, covered the Altiplano in the Andes

Asia

* West Siberian Glacial Lake

Africa

* Lake Makgadikgadi in the Kalahari Desert in Africa

ee also

*List of endorheic basins
*List of lakes


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