For the modern reservoir, see Lake Lahontan (reservoir).
Extent of prehistoric Lake Lahontan
Lake Lahontan was a large endorheic Pleistocene lake of modern northwestern Nevada that extended into northeastern California and southern Oregon. The area of the former lake is a large portion of the Great Basin that borders the Sacramento River watershed to the west.
The lake was named by Clarence King during the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. The name honors Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan, Baron de Lahontan, a French soldier and explorer.[1][2]
^Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada(PDF). W.P.A. p. 11.
^King, Clarence (1870). Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel (Report). p. 13. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
LakeLahontan was a large endorheic Pleistocene lake of modern northwestern Nevada that extended into northeastern California and southern Oregon. The...
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chemical composition of the different tufa types in LakeLahontan, a large Pleistocene system of multiple lakes in California, Nevada, and Oregon. Not surprisingly...
massive LakeLahontan during the ice ages until the lake shrank to remnants such as Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake about 7,000 years ago, although Lake Tahoe—from...
influenced by Pleistocene lakes that dried after the last ice age: LakeLahontan and Lake Bonneville. Each of these lakes left different amounts of salinity...
expanded lakes during the Late Pleistocene, including LakeLahontan in northwestern Nevada. Shorelines of Lake Bonneville are visible above Salt Lake City...
century, when the existence of LakeLahontan and Lake Bonneville was first described. The possibility of a former lake in Death Valley was also considered...
into the Truckee Canal that would otherwise enter Pyramid Lake. The canal feeds LakeLahontan reservoir in the Carson River watershed, where it is used...
The Lahontan Valley is a basin in Churchill County, Nevada, United States. The valley is a landform of the central portion of the prehistoric Lake Lahontan's...
many pictographs left by the inhabitants of the area at the time of LakeLahontan.[citation needed] This area also has some interesting tufa formations...
the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene LakeLahontan. The Great Basin, named for the geography in which water is unable to...
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streams and 8 to 22 in (20 to 56 cm) in larger rivers and lakes. In ideal environments, the Lahontan cutthroat trout attains typical weights of 0.25 to 8 lb...
Sink. Lovelock Cave is in the LakeLahontan region, next to the former lakebed of LakeLahontan. It was formed by the lake's currents and wave action. It...
off the coast. Lake Tanganyika in Africa. Currently high enough to connect to rivers entering the sea. LakeLahontan in North America. Lake Bonneville in...
& Idaho: LakeLahontan; 12,700 – 9,000 YBP in Nevada, California and Oregon. Lake Alvord in Oregon and Nevada Lake Amboy in California Lake Bonneville;...
is known as the Lahontan Reservoir or LakeLahontan. It is currently operated by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District. The Lahontan Dam was built by...
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of ancient LakeLahontan sediments. The Soda Lakes volcano's age is inferred as less than 6000 years because it is younger than the lake sediments. Fault...
gl/maps/79RHE2cNwEwNC2WB9). Winnemucca Lake is a sub-basin within the Lahontan Basin in northwestern Nevada. It lies east of Pyramid Lake and is on the dividing line...
precipitation is retained temporarily on the surface in the lakes. Streams meander from lake to lake, and only part of the total precipitation is carried away...
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