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What was the name of the glacier that provided meltwater that formed the great lakes?
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The Great Lakes are estimated to have been formed at the end of the last ice age (about 10,000 years ago), when the Laurentide ice sheet receded.
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Was the great salt lake formed by a glacier?
yes from the cintinental period a glacier swept acrost and made a hole and the glacier melted and formed the salt lakes
How the Great Lakes formed?
Have you ever wondered how scientists think the Great Lakes were formed? The answer to that starts with the ice age. During the last ice age, there were large masses of ice called glaciers. The last major glacier called the Laurentide formed. It covered almost all of Canada and extended to the United States as far as Chicago, Illinois. As it started melting and receding, it pushed against the land and made big empty spaces. All the water that was left behind, called meltwater, filled those holes which made the Great Lakes. (This may help your child with homework).They were formed by glaciers applying pressureto the ground so the ground weathered (broke down into small pieces) and the glacier melted and that is the water.
What were the great lakes formed by?
They were created by an ice shelf or large glacier that gouged out the lakes during the last Ice age.
When was The Great Glacier created?
The Great Glacier was created in 1992.
How did Moraine in Dayton Ohio get its name?
The area that Moraine,Ohio is marked as was formed by the glacier. The land is of gravel(moraine) left by the North American glacier that formed the Great Lakes, Ohio River and Mississippi River along with East Coast Islands.
What 3 places in the us was formed by glaciers?
Glacier Bay, Great Lakes, and The Grand Canyon (idk about the Grand Canyon one but it was formed by the process of erosion so maybe)
Did glacier movement form the Great Lakes or the Atlantic Ocean?
The Great Lakers were ultimately formed by glaciers. The Atlantic Ocean was not. It was formed by continental rifting. Glaciers could not form a whole new ocean basin like that.
Did Canada and the US make the Great lakes?
Land features, expecially the size of the great lakes, are generally formed by natural processes. In the case of the great lakes, they were formed by huge glaciers moving southward. Each lake represents where a glacier stopped moving. When the glacier melted away, there was a deep and wide hole left where its immense weight had carved into the Earth, and the melt water filled the hole.
Did a glacier melt in the great canyon?
no the Colorado river eroded out the grand canyon not a glacier
What were the great lakes carved by?
The Malaspina Glacier carved the Great Lakes.
What glacier dug out the Great Lakes?
canadian shield
What are the names of the glacier and passes that lie in great Himalayas?
Passes are:-Nathula PassJelepla PassesRohtang PassMohan PassMustagh Passglaciers are :-KhumbuGangotriYamunotriSiachen GlacierLongpu GlacierKyagar GlacierMudui GlacierGasherbrum GlacierStagar GlacierK2 Glacier ( Qogir glacier)
