Lake Komi

Lake Komi

Lake Komi was a prehistoric periglacial lake formed in the region of the present-day Russian Komi Republic when the Barents Sea outlet of the Pechora River was blocked by ice during the Weichselian Glaciation. [Mangeruda, J. et al (2004). "Ice-dammed lakes and rerouting of the drainage of northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation." Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (2004), pp. 1313–1332. [http://www.geol.lu.se/personal/PRM/PDF_papers%20full%20text/QSR_2004_QUEEN_mangerud.pdf] (accessed 11/30/2006)]

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* The [http://www.ccom-jhc.unh.edu Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Joint Hydrographic Center (CCOM/JHC)] at the University of New Hampshire provides an excellent Flash animation of the probable drainage outburst of Lake Komi following some glacial retreat: [http://www.ccom-jhc.unh.edu/image_gallery/animations/LakoKomi-2.html] . For reference, the large moon-shaped island, top-center in the animation, is Novaya Zemlya, and the mountains to the right are the northernmost Urals.


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