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You are able to see where the glacier dug out the Great Lakes long ago due to the area of land called the?
you are able to see where the glacier dug out the great lakes long ago due to the area of land called what?
What were the great lakes carved by?
The Malaspina Glacier carved the Great Lakes.
How do the galciers affect Michigan and the great lakes?
The retreating glaciers dug deep into the earth carving the Great Lakes.
What could begin after a glacier melts?
the great lakes or just lakse
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
What was dug that connected the great lakes to the Hudson river?
I think that would be the Erie Canal.
How were the 5 lakes form?
From a glacier
What was the name of the glacier that provided meltwater that formed the great lakes?
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.
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.
What great lake in the last ice age is farthest north and farthest west?
There were no Great Lakes during the last Ice Age. The area in which the Great Lakes are presently located was covered by a glacier that was from one to three kilometers thick.
What are some bottomless glacier lakes in the world?
No lakes are truly bottomless but there are some that are given that term. Lake Pend Oreille is the fifth largest glacier lake in the US, and is located in the Idaho Panhandle. Great Slave Lake in Canada is also given this name.
When does the glacier swept over north America?
The Malaspina and the Athabasca are names of the two glaciers. 2. They both carved great lakes.
