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Early Lake Erie was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. The early Erie fed waters to Glacial Lake Iroquois . The ancient lake was similar in size to the current lake during glacial retreat, but for some period the eastern half of the lake was covered with ice.
Lake Erie has a lake retention time of 2.6 years, [24] the shortest of all the Great Lakes. [25] The lake's surface area is 9,910 square miles (25,667 km 2). [7] [26] Lake Erie's water level fluctuates with the seasons as in the other Great Lakes. Generally, the lowest levels are in January and February and the highest in June or July, although ...
Early Lake Erie; 11,800 – 8,700 YBP in Ohio, Ontario, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York and located in the Erie basin [1] Lake Lundy; 2,000 YBP [7] in Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and New York; Lake Elkton stage of Lake Lundy @ 620 feet (190 m) above sea level [7] Lake Dana stage of Lake Lundy @ 590 feet (180 m) above sea level [7]
Location of Sandusky Bay (darker blue extending southwest from Lake Erie). Sandusky Bay is a bay on Lake Erie in northern Ohio, formed at the mouth of the Sandusky River.It was identified as Lac Sandouské on a 1718 French map, with early variations recorded that suggest the name was derived from Native American languages.
The History of Presque Isle Pennsylvania began when Presque Isle was created by the wave action of Lake Erie over the course of the 11,000 years that have passed since the last ice age. [1] Presque Isle was likely 3 miles (5 km) west of its current location when it first formed.
Lake Erie has 871 miles of shoreline that includes Ohio, New York and Michigan as well as Pennsylvania. The average depth of the lake is only about 62 feet, with a 210-foot maximum. It therefore ...
Lake Maumee was a proglacial lake and an ancestor of present-day Lake Erie. It formed about 17,500 calendar years, or 14,000 Radiocarbon Years Before Present (RCYBP) as the Huron-Erie Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation .
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