Lake Agassiz



Lake Agassiz is a glacial lake of the Pleistocene epoch. It is about 1,130 km (700 miles) long and 400 km (250 miles) wide. The lake was formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet around 8,000 B.C. The lake covered much of present-day northwestern Minnesota, northeastern North Dakota, southern Manitoba and southwestern Ontario. As the ice melted, the water drained east into Lake Superior and after all the ice had disappeared, north into Hudson Bay.

After all the ice had melted, Lake Winnipeg, Lake Manitoba, Lake Winnipegosis, Red Lake, Lake of the Woods and other smaller lakes were left. Lake Traverse, Big Stone Lake and the Minnesota River are in the channel of prehistoric River Warren, which was Lake Agassiz's original outlet to the south. The bed of the old lake is now the Red River valley, which has become an important crop-growing region due to its rich soil.

The lake was named in 1879 in memory of Louis Agassiz for his contributions to the theory of the glacial epoch.


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