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    In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or...
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    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...
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    and these lakes filled initially with proglacial lake rhythmites. The deposition of proglacial lake rhythmites occurred between 14,400 and 13,900 BP calendar...
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  • outwash plains, kames, kame terraces, kettle holes, eskers, varves, and proglacial lakes. Meltwater streams and formed by glaciers, especially in warmer seasons...
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    northward toward Lake Superior through the eastern proglacial outlet. Even though vast amounts of water flowed over the southern rim of Lake Superior, the...
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    Lake Agassiz (/ˈæɡəsi/ AG-ə-see) was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the...
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    dramatically varying amounts of meltwater to the system. Numerous proglacial lakes formed in various places and configurations as the ice sheet advanced...
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    Bulgaria Sea Lion Tarn on Livingston Island in Antarctica Lakes portal Pond Proglacial lake Kettle (landform) "Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial...
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    Lake Missoula was a prehistoric proglacial lake in western Montana that existed periodically at the end of the last ice age between 15,000 and 13,000...
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  • of a proglacial lake.  This lake forms as glacial meltwater is trapped behind larger deposits of till that form the dam. These proglacial lakes were fed...
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