Saugeen Kame Terraces

Saugeen Kame Terraces

The Saugeen Kame Terraces is a 431 hectare provincially-significant "Earth Science" Area of Natural and Scientific Interest in Ontario, Canada.Cite web
url=http://nhic.mnr.gov.on.ca/areas/areas_report.cfm?areaid=8061
title=Natural Areas Report: SAUGEEN KAME TERRACES
publisher=Ministry of Natural Resources Natural Heritage Information Centre
accessdate=2008-02-12
] It is in Grey County (in what was once Egremont Township), bounding the eastern and southern shores of Wilder Lake, a kettle lake, and is part of the larger Singhampton Kame Moraine formation. It is the result of glacial retreat sediment deposition about 14,000 years ago.

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