This map shows the valley of the Mohawk River, through which Glacial Lake Iroquois crossed the mountains to the Hudson River Valley.
Lake Iroquois
Location
North America
Group
Great Lakes
Coordinates
43°42′N77°54′W / 43.7°N 77.9°W / 43.7; -77.9
Lake type
former lake
Etymology
Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (/ˈhoʊdənoʊˈʃoʊni/; "People of the Longhouse")[1]
Primary inflows
Niagara River Welland Canal
Primary outflows
Mohawk River to the Hudson River
Basin countries
Canada United States
Max. length
196 mi (315 km)
Max. width
57 mi (92 km)
Surface elevation
345 ft (105 m)
References
United States Geological Survey, George Otis Smith, Director; The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes; Frank Leverett and Frank B. Taylor; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey; Volume LIII; Washington; Government Printing Office; 1915
Glacial Lake Iroquois was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago.[2]
^Beauchamp, William Martin (1905). A History of the New York Iroquois. New York State Education Department. p. 165. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
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Richard Foster Flint (2008). Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4437-2173-8.
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