Lake Frontenac

Lake Frontenac was a proglacial lake in the basin of what is now Lake Ontario.[1][2] The sudden influx of fresh water into the Atlantic, as the retreat of the Laurentian Glacier triggered a sudden drop in the lake's water level, may in turn have triggered the onset of the Younger Dryas, 1000-year period of renewed cooling approximately 12000 years ago.

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References

  1. ↑ Richard Foster Flint. Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch. ISBN 978-1-4437-2173-8. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
  2. ↑ Occhietti, S.; Anderson, T. W.; Karrow, P. F.; Lewis, M. C.; Mott, R. J.; Parent, M.; Richard, P. J.; Rodrigues, C. G.; Stea, R. (2005). "Glacial Lake Outflow via the St. Lawrence Pathway Prior to the Champlain Sea Invasion and During the Younger Dryas". American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 2009-10-15.

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