Glacial Lake Iroquois
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Glacial Lake Iroquois was a large prehistoric proglacial lake that occupied and extended beyond the present-day Lake Ontario basin during the retreat of the last Ice Age glaciers.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former lake
ⓘ
proglacial lake ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
St. Lawrence River valley deglaciation
ⓘ
retreat of ice margin north of Lake Ontario basin ⓘ |
| ceasedToExistDueTo | isostatic rebound ⓘ |
| ceasedToExistDueTo | opening of St. Lawrence River outlet ⓘ |
| createdLandform |
Iroquois shoreline
ⓘ
beach ridges ⓘ delta deposits ⓘ wave-cut terraces ⓘ |
| drainedInto | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drainedThrough | Hudson River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| evidenceFoundIn |
fossil shorelines
ⓘ
glaciolacustrine sediments ⓘ raised beaches ⓘ |
| extendedBeyond | present-day Lake Ontario shoreline ⓘ |
| followedBy | lower-level post-Iroquois lake stages ⓘ |
| formedDuring |
Late Pleistocene
ⓘ
last glacial period ⓘ |
| formedDuringRetreatOf | Laurentide Ice Sheet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadOutlet | Hudson River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasApproximateAge | late Wisconsinan glaciation ⓘ |
| influencedDevelopmentOf |
regional drainage patterns around Lake Ontario
ⓘ
sediment distribution in Lake Ontario basin ⓘ soils around Lake Ontario basin ⓘ |
| largerThan | modern Lake Ontario ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North America ⓘ Ontario ⓘ St. Lawrence Lowlands region NERFINISHED ⓘ present-day Lake Ontario basin ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Iroquois people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Lakes glacial lake sequence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier proglacial lakes in Ontario basin ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Lake Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shorelineRemnantVisibleAt |
Niagara Escarpment areas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rochester, New York area NERFINISHED ⓘ Scarborough Bluffs NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto, Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedInDiscipline |
Quaternary geology
ⓘ
geomorphology ⓘ glacial geology ⓘ |
| successor | early Lake Ontario stages ⓘ |
| waterLevelControlledBy |
ice margin of Laurentide Ice Sheet
ⓘ
southern outlet elevation ⓘ |
| waterLevelHigherThan | present Lake Ontario level ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Laurentide Ice Sheet