Lake Frontenac
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Lake Frontenac
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Lake Frontenac was a proglacial lake in the basin of what is now Lake Ontario.
The sudden influx of fresh water into the Atlantic, as the retreat of the Laurentian Glacier triggered a sudden drop in the lake's water level, may in turn have triggered the onset of the Younger Dryas, 1000-year period of renewed cooling approximately 12000 years ago. When the retreating ice opened a passage eastward around the north side of the Adirondack Mountains to the basin of Lake Champlain, the lake level fell
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Former lake in North America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Frontenac
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2024-03-03T19:37:24Z
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