The Red River is what's left of ancient Lake Agassiz. CATHY WURZER: You are listening to Minnesota Now here on MPR News. I'm Cathy Wurzer. As you know, Minnesota claims to be the land of 10,000 lakes.
Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric inland sea, spread across the continent with a reach that ...
What caused water levels to drop in immense yet long-vanished Lake Agassiz? New research suggests that conditions 12,000 years ago encouraged evaporation. Not long ago, geologically speaking, a ...
Yahoo News Canada: Lake Agassiz: New book explores origins, discovery of giant phantom lake
The catastrophic drainage of glacial Lake Agassiz about 8,500 years ago is linked to abrupt climate change. A layer of sediments deposited during the previous interglacial period suggests that such ...
Lakes dammed by ice will commonly spill in catastrophic outbursts. Lake Agassiz-Ojibway, at the margin of the Laurentide ice sheet, burst 8,470 years ago in a subglacial flood whose marks have been ...
Yahoo: The lost inland sea that dwarfed the Great Lakes and reshaped North America
Long before Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario became the defining waters of North America, a far larger lake spread across the center of the continent. Lake ...