Extent of Glacial Lake Tight about 500,000 YBP (years before present)
Lake Tight
Location
Ohio & West Virginia
Coordinates
38°48′N82°13′W / 38.8°N 82.21°W / 38.8; -82.21
Lake type
former lake
Etymology
William G. Tight
Primary inflows
Laurentide Ice Sheet
Primary outflows
Ohio River
Basin countries
United States
First flooded
2,000,000 years before present
Max. length
c. 85 mi (137 km)
Max. width
c. 90 mi (140 km) – 212 mi (341 km)
Surface area
9,920 sq mi (25,700 km2)
Average depth
340 ft (100 m)
Max. depth
400 ft (120 m)
Residence time
170,000 years in existence
Surface elevation
c. 1,160 ft (354 m)
References
Goldthwaite, R. P., "The Teays Valley Problem, a Historical Perspective", pp. 3-8 in Wilton N. Melhorn, 1991, Geology and Hydrogeology of the Teays-Mahomet Bedrock Valley Systems, Geological Society of America Special Paper.
Lake Tight, named for geologist William G. Tight, was a glacial lake in what is present-day Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, during the Ice Age the early Pleistocene before 700,000 years.[1]
^Goldthwaite, R. P., "The Teays Valley Problem, a Historical Perspective", pp. 3-8 in Wilton N. Melhorn, 1991, Geology and Hydrogeology of the Teays-Mahomet Bedrock Valley Systems, Geological Society of America Special Paper ISBN 978-0-8137-2258-0 Google books
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