Glacial Lakes of the Ice Age

Map of glacial Lake Agassiz maximum extent across central North America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg0Z3LappEM

 

As the Laurentide ice sheet retreated, meltwater ponded into glacial lakes far larger than today’s Great Lakes.

Lake Agassiz alone spanned parts of present-day Manitoba, Ontario, and the northern U.S. plains before catastrophic outflows.

Wednesday October 28th 2020