West Siberian Glacial Lake

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The West Siberian Glacial Lake was a proglacial lake formed when the Arctic Ocean outlets for each of the Ob and Yenisei rivers were blocked by the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet during the Weichselian Glaciation, approximately 80,000 years ago.

See Mangerud et al (2004)^[1] for excellent diagrams and descriptions of the lake as well as postulated drainage patterns.

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1. ^ Mangerud, J. et al (2004). Ice-dammed lakes and rerouting of the drainage of northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (2004), pp. 1313–1332. [1]

[edit] External Links

Map of the West Siberian Glacial Lake (accessed 11/15/2006)