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glacial lake [¦glā·shəl ′lāk] (geology) A lake that exists because of the effects of the glacial period. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Their mother deposits her daughters at the home of their grandmother in Fingerbone, a small community on a glacial lake in the Northwest, and then kills herself by driving her car into the lake. The most influential activities were the melting of stagnant ice lobes in the valley, the periodic creation and breaching of ice dams south of Skaha Lake that created glacial Lake Penticton, and the deposition of thick glaciolacustrine silts which filled the valley. According to Martin Jakobsson of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, the three largest Eurasian glacial lakes at the end of the last ice age together covered a total of 907,000 square kilometers, an area about 8 percent larger than Lake Agassiz at its largest. |
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