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Before 600,000 years ago, Lake Corcoran covered the Central Valley of California. 600,000 years ago a new outlet formed in the present day San Francisco Bay, rapidly carving an outlet through Carquinez Strait, probably catastrophically, and drained the lake, leaving the Buena Vista, Kern and Tulare Lakes as remnants.
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Buena Vista Lake, Kern Lake and Tulare Lake are remnants of Lake Corcoran. [5] The lake is the source of the Corcoran Clay, [2] a lacustrine unit of the Tulare and Turlock Lake formations. [7] It also influenced sedimentation off the coast of California. [8] The lake existed between about 758,000 and 665,000 years ago. [2]
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Today, the Tulare Lake is shrinking rapidly, even amid recent rainfall. As of Thursday, water covered about 4,532 acres of farmland, according to Justin Caporusso, who handles public relations for ...
Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, encompassing as much as 790 square miles in what is now Kings and Tulare counties. But by the late 1800s it had been ...
The lake, dry in most years since it was drained in the late 1800s, has sprung back to life as a result of a series of atmospheric river storms that plowed into central California in January ...