LARGE MELTWATER EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LAKE MICHIGAN LOBE DURING THE LAST DEGLACIATION, ILLINOIS, USA
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The surficial glacial features and glacial events of a 13 000 square mile area in northern Ontario are described, based on field work and study of aerial photographs. Ice-laid and glaciolacustrine materials suggest a complex history of stationary ice fronts and glacial lakes during deglaciation. Lakes in the Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior basins inundated large areas. Post-Minong lake stages in the Superior basin intruded far to the north, dammed by ice at the largest moraine, the Nakina. The northern part of this lake was later separated from the post-Minong lake by differential uplift and was named Lake Nakina. After the withdrawal of the ice, Glacial Lake Barlow–Ojibway occupied the northeastern part of the area, and much of it was later overridden by the last glacial readvance. Stratigraphic correlations with radiocarbon dates suggest that the Nakina moraine was built some 9 400 years ago, and that the last glacier ice disappeared before 6 390 years ago.
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Abstract Geomorphic and sedimentologic evidence in the Grand Valley, which drained the retreating Saginaw Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and later acted as a spillway between lakes in the Huron and Erie basins and in the Michigan basin, suggests that at least one drainage event from glacial Lake Saginaw to glacial Lake Chicago was a catastrophic outburst that deeply incised the valley. Analysis of shoreline and outlet geomorphology at the Chicago outlet supports J H Bretz's hypothesis of episodic incision and lake-level change. Shoreline features of each lake level converge to separate outlet sills that decrease in elevation from the oldest to youngest lake phases. This evidence, coupled with the presence of boulder lags and other features consistent with outburst origin, suggests that the outlets were deepened by catastrophic outbursts at least twice. The first incision event is correlated with a linked series of floods that progressed from Huron and Erie basin lakes to glacial Lake Saginaw to glacial Lake Chicago and then to the Mississippi. The second downcutting event occurred after the Two Rivers Advance of the Lake Michigan Lobe. Outbursts from the eastern outlets of glacial Lake Agassiz to glacial Lake Algonquin are a possible cause for this period of downcutting at the Chicago outlets.
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