Early Lake Erie

Early Lake Erie was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. The early Erie fed waters to Glacial Lake Iroquois.

Then ancient lake was similar in size to the current lake during glacial retreat, but some period the western half of the lake was covered with ice.

Early-period Lake Erie was made up of smaller lakes (Lakes Warren, Wayne, Maumee and Lundy) with lower depths. Much of the ancient lake bed is now northern Ohio.

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Lake Erie Landscapes

Pleistocene proglacial lakes and related seas

Africa	Lake Makgadikgadi

Asia	Lake Komi · West Siberian Glacial Lake

Europe	Ancylus Lake · Baltic Ice Lake · Lake Harrison · Lake Lapworth · Lake Pickering · Littorina Sea · Mastogloia Sea · Yoldia Sea

North America	Lake Admiralty · Lake Albany · Lake Algonquin · Lake Bonneville · Lake Bassano · Lake Cahuilla · Lake Chicago · Lake Columbia · Lake Connecticut · Early Lake Erie · Lake Frontenac · Lake Great Falls · Lake Hitchcock · Lake Iroquois · Lake Lahontan · Lake Manly · Lake Maumee · Lake Minong · Lake Missoula · Lake Monongahela · Lake Ojibway · Lake Passaic · Proglacial lakes of Minnesota (Lake Agassiz · Lake Duluth) · Lake Souris · Lake Stowe · Lake Tight · Teays River · Lake Tonawanda · Tyrrell Sea · Lake Wisconsin

South America	Lake Ballivián