Glacial Lake Iroquois
Prehistoric lake that became Lake Ontario / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glacial Lake Iroquois was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago.[2]
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Lake Iroquois | |
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Location | North America |
Group | Great Lakes |
Coordinates | 43.7°N 77.9°W / 43.7; -77.9 |
Lake type | former lake |
Etymology | Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (/ˈhoʊdənoʊˈʃoʊni/; "People of the Longhouse")[1] |
Primary inflows | Niagara River |
Primary outflows | Mohawk River to the Hudson River |
Basin countries | Canada United States |
Max. length | 196 mi (315 km) |
Max. width | 57 mi (92 km) |
Surface elevation | 345 ft (105 m) |
References | United States Geological Survey, George Otis Smith, Director; The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes; Frank Leverett and Frank B. Taylor; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey; Volume LIII; Washington; Government Printing Office; 1915 |
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