glacier-ice-blocked lake

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• lake — lake1 /layk/, n. 1. a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land. 2. any similar body or pool of other liquid, as oil. 3. (go) jump in the lake, (used as an exclamation of dismissal or impatience.) [bef. 1000; ME lak(e) …   Universalium

• Lake — /layk/, n. Simon, 1866 1945, U.S. engineer and naval architect. * * * I Relatively large body of slow moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin. Lakes are most abundant in high northern latitudes and in mountain regions, particularly …   Universalium

• Lake Maumee — Glacial Lake Maumee was a proglacial lake that was an ancestor of present day Lake Erie. It formed about 14,000 years ago. As the Erie Lobe of the Wisconsin Glacier retreated at the end of the last ice age, it left meltwater in a previously… …   Wikipedia

• Ice dam — An ice dam (or ice jam) occurs when water builds up behind a blockage of ice. Ice dams can occur in various ways.Caused by a glacierSometimes a glacier flows down a valley to a confluence where the other branch carries an unfrozen river. The… …   Wikipedia

• Baltic Ice Lake — The Baltic ice lake is a name given by geologists to a freshwater lake that gradually formed in the Baltic Sea basin as glaciation retreated from that region at the end of the Pleistocene. The lake, dated to 12,600 10,300 BP, is roughly… …   Wikipedia

• Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field — The Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field is a National Park Service designated privately owned National Natural Landmark located in Douglas County, Washington state, United States. Withrow Moraine is the only Ice Age terminal moraine on …   Wikipedia

• Chilkoot Lake — Looking up the Chilkoot River valley and at Chilkoot Lake from the Takshanuk Mountains Location Haines Borough, Alaska, USA …   Wikipedia

• Abyss Lake (Alaska) — Infobox lake lake name = Abyss Lake image lake = caption lake = image bathymetry = caption bathymetry = location = Southeastern Alaska coords = coord|58|51|N| 136|62|W|region:US type:waterbody|display=inline,title type = inflow = Brady Glacier… …   Wikipedia

• Agassiz, Lake — ▪ ancient lake, North America       largest of the ice margin lakes that once covered what are now parts of Manitoba, Ontario, and Saskatchewan in Canada and North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States. It was present in the Pleistocene Epoch …   Universalium

• Monson Lake State Park — Coordinates: 45°19′14″N 95°16′13″W / 45.32056°N 95.27028°W / 45.32056; 95.27028 …   Wikipedia

• Traverse Gap — [ Lake Traverse (top) and Big Stone Lake, cut through the Big Stone Moraine (NW to SE on this image).] The Traverse Gap is an ancient river channel occupied by Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake and the valley connecting them at Browns Valley,… …   Wikipedia