Lake Agassiz

I want to return to the idea of Lake Agassiz inducing the YD regardless of what would have released the meltwater.

RealClimate 2009

I want to return to the idea of Lake Agassiz inducing the YD regardless of what would have released the meltwater.

RealClimate 2009

The shore lines of extinct lakes, such as Lake Agassiz and Lakes Bonneville and

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

When the glacier melted, it created the vast Lake Agassiz.

N.D. river towns brace for 35% chance of record flooding 2011

That 1300-year “big freeze” was supposedly caused by just such an incident, only the spill was from the pre-historic Lake Agassiz in North America.

‘Global Warming Causes Earthquakes.’ Suuuuure it does. | RedState 2010

Glacial Lake Agassiz was the last in a series of proglacial lakes to fill the Red River Valley since the beginning of the Pleistocene.

Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA) 2009

Glacial Lake Agassiz was the last in a series of proglacial lakes to fill the Red River valley in the three million years since the beginning of the Pleistocene.

Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA) 2009

The beach ridges appear as parallel lines of sand and gravel formed by wave action on the varying shoreline levels of glacial Lake Agassiz.

Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA) 2009

Several climate heating episodes between 11,000 and 7,700 years BP are attributed to the catastrophic drainage of Lake Agassiz and the Laurentide glacial lakes in North America.

Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009

Three sand deltas, the largest being the Sheyenne River delta in the south, occur where major rivers entered glacial Lake Agassiz and dropped their sediment load.

Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA) 2009