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Lake Ojibway

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A recent analysis states it has not been conclusively determined whether the lake drained by a breach of the ice dam, by water spilling over the glacier, or by a flood under the glacier. It is also not conclusively known whether there were one or more pulses, and the route the water took to reach
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Lake Ojibway was relatively short-lived. The lake drained in what must have been a catastrophic and dramatic manner around 8,200 years BP. One hypothesis is that a weakening
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Lajeunesse, P.; St-Onge, G. (2007). "Reconstruction of the Last Outburst Flood of Glacial Lake Agassiz-Ojibway in Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait".
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broke, as the lake was roughly 250 m (820 ft) above
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The draining of Lake Ojibway is a possible cause of the
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Lake Agassiz
Lake Ojibway is located in Ontario
Ontario
Quebec
48°N 80°W / 48°N 80°W / 48; -80
Lake type
former lake
Chippewa Nation
Primary inflows
Laurentide Ice Sheet
Primary outflows
Ottawa River
Basin
Residence time
"Lake Ojibway; Last of the Great Glacial Lakes"
prehistoric
Ontario
Quebec
Canada
proglacial lakes
ice age
Lake Agassiz
Great Lakes
BP
Clay Belt
ice dam
Hudson Bay
sea level
Missoula floods

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