What's in a lake? (Letters)."Once Upon A Lake" (SN: 11/2/02, p. 283), claims that Lake Agassiz This article is about the prehistoric lake, For other geographic features with this name, see Agassiz Lake Agassiz was an immense lake theorized to be in the center of North America. became the world's largest lake. It seems to me that the same conditions should have occurred in Asia. Shouldn't you compare Lake Agassiz to glacier-dam-produced lakes in Asia and contemporary freshwater versions of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea Caspian Sea (kăs`pēən), Lat. Mare Caspium or Mare Hyrcanium, salt lake, c.144,000 sq mi (373,000 sq km), between Europe and Asia; the largest lake in the world. ? ROBERT W. DAVIS Robert W. Davis may refer to:
According to Martin Jakobsson of the University of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). in Durham, the three largest Eurasian glacial lakes at the end of the last ice age together covered a total of 907,000 square kilometers, an area about 8 percent larger than Lake Agassiz at its largest. But those shallower bodies held only one-fifth the water that Lake Agassiz did. Freshwater Lake Agassiz covered more than twice the area of the Black or Caspian Sea, but it didn't hold as much water as the Black Sea.--S. PERKINS |
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