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Proglacial lakes of Minnesota (Paleogeography 🦕)
The proglacial lakes of Minnesota were lakes created in what is now the U.S. state of Minnesota in central North America in the waning years of the last glacial period. As the Laurentide Ice Sheet decayed at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, lakes were created in depressions or behind moraines left b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proglacial_lakes_of_Minnesota
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Great Tehuelche Paleolake (Paleogeography 🦕)
The Paleolake Tehuelche is the name for several former lakes that existed in the area of Torres del Paine in southern Patagonia. These were proglacial lakes that existed next to the Patagonian Ice Sheet during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Some of the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Tehuelche_Paleolake
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