Glacial Lake Ojibway

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Glacial Lake Ojibway was the last of the great proglacial lakes of the last ice age. Comparable in size to Lake Agassiz (to which it was probably linked), and north of the Great Lakes, it was at its greatest extent c. 8,500 years BP.

Lake Ojibway was relatively short-lived. Around 8,300 years BP, a weakening ice dam separating it from Hudson Bay broke; as the lake was roughly 250 m above sea level, it drained in what must have been a catastrophic and dramatic manner.

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  • Pielou, E.C. After the Ice Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
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