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of the continental ice sheet, block the flow of water northward and impounded it along the ice front. Lakes formed, until the waters could find a new way to drain. Initially, the north flowing rivers followed the front of the glacier eastward and into a valley that passed between
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Lindvall, R. M., 1965, Quaternary Geology Of Northern Great Plains, in Wright, H. E., Jr., and Frey, D. G., Eds, The Quaternary of the United States, Princeton University Press, Princeton,
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Colton, R. B., Lemke, R. W., and
Lindvall, R. M., 1961, Glacial map of Montana East of the Rocky Mountains, U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geological Investigations Map I-327.
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Lindvall, R. M., 1962, Geology Of The Eagle Buttes
Quadrangle, Chouteau County, Montana, U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geological Investigations Map I-349.
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Evolution In Northeastern Montana and Northwestern North Dakota, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v69, 575-588.
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Glacial Geology of Eastern Montana and Adjacent Areas; William C. Alden; United States Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C.; 1932
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164:Over the divide to the
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760:Nipissing Great Lakes
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627:Lake Agassiz
618:Nelson River
535:Ancylus Lake
502:Lake Tengger
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379:Bibliography
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279:Garrison Dam
248:and eastern
246:South Dakota
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207:Surface area
132:Glacial lake
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79:, Counties,
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1139:Lake Tecopa
1124:Lake Mojave
1104:Lake Harper
1044:New England
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1011:Teays River
963:Mississippi
922:Lake Circle
864:Puget Sound
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786:Lake Warren
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750:Lake Maumee
720:Lake Duluth
700:Lake Arkona
676:Great Lakes
666:Tyrrell Sea
637:Lake Souris
442:Pleistocene
329:Lake Circle
323:Lake Jordan
236:Before the
190:Max. length
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88:Coordinates
1352:Categories
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1230:Inca Huasi
1119:Lake Modoc
1114:Lake Manly
1109:Lake Manix
1086:California
1076:Lake Stowe
1006:Lake Tight
825:Lake Lewis
791:Lake Wayne
745:Lake Lundy
555:Yoldia Sea
528:Baltic Sea
474:Antarctica
345:References
258:Hudson Bay
228:References
198:Max. width
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652:James Bay
571:Lake Komi
271:Riverdale
127:Lake type
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994:drainage
965:drainage
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620:drainage
507:Mundafan
285:See also
267:Garrison
65:Location
1274:Summary
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250:Montana
1235:Mataro
1220:Cabana
1187:Alaska
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1021:Hudson
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