Locational Lake Examples - Limnology Exam 2

Ice-Scour Lakes

The North American Great Lake basins

proglacial lakes

Lake Agassiz- larger in area than all of the great lakes combined

lake missoula

subglacial lakes

lake vostok in antarctica

cirque lakes

Upper Thorton Lake, cascades national park

moraine lakes

The Madison Lakes in Wisconsin

Lake Mendota

Devil’s lake in Wisconsin 

Alluvial Dam Lakes

Lake Pepin (WI)

Lake St. Croix (WI)

Kettle lakes

Dominate North American and Eurasian glacial plains

often located in highly rich soils and are typically productive lakes

Grabens

Lake Baikal in Russia

E African Great Lakes- Africa’s Great Rift Valley

Afar depression in ethiopia

Lake Tahoe CA Nevada

Donner Lake CA Nevada

uplift lakes

Caspian Sea

lake Okeechobee - FL

Earthquake Lakes

Reelfoot Lake- west tennessee

Caldera

Crater Lake

Maar

The Devil Mountain Lakes on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska

Karst Lakes

The Lost Sea - Sweetwater TN

Piping Lakes

Dead Man Lake - Arizona

Aeolian Lakes

Lake Moses, in the cold desert region of eastern washington

Meteor Crater Lakes

Manicougan crater (canada)

Rouchechouart crater (France)

Arizona’s Meteor Crater extinct lake.