Glacial Lake Iroquois

Lake Iroquois
This map shows the valley of the Mohawk River, through which Glacial Lake Iroquois crossed the mountains to the Hudson River Valley.
Lake Iroquois is located in North America
Lake Iroquois
Lake Iroquois
LocationNorth America
GroupGreat Lakes
Coordinates43°42′N 77°54′W / 43.7°N 77.9°W / 43.7; -77.9
Lake typeformer lake
EtymologyIroquois or Haudenosaunee (/ˈhoʊdənoʊˈʃoʊni/; "People of the Longhouse")[1]
Primary inflowsNiagara River
Primary outflowsMohawk River to the Hudson River
Basin countriesCanada
United States
Max. length196 mi (315 km)
Max. width57 mi (92 km)
Surface elevation345 ft (105 m)
ReferencesUnited States Geological Survey, George Otis Smith, Director; The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes; Frank Leverett and Frank B. Taylor; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey; Volume LIII; Washington; Government Printing Office; 1915

Glacial Lake Iroquois was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago.[2]

  1. ^ Beauchamp, William Martin (1905). A History of the New York Iroquois. New York State Education Department. p. 165. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Richard Foster Flint (2008). Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4437-2173-8.