The book "Lake Agassiz: The Rise and Demise of the World's Greatest Lake" takes readers back thousands of years to when the lake formed, and up to the scientists and explorers who discovered it.

Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, ...

Lake Agassiz wasn’t Canada’s only glacial lake. It wasn’t even the only glacial lake in Manitoba. There were also glacial lakes Hind to the southwest and Proven up on the escarpment.

At the time, Lake Agassiz had merged with another glacial lake to stretch 2,000 km with an area of more than 841,000 km 2. Before the collapse, the lake drained southeastward through an outlet ...

Title: "Lake Agassiz – The Rise and Demise of the World’s Greatest Lake" Book details the now-disappeared Lake Agassiz Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

Named after Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-American naturalist who first proposed its existence in the mid-19th century, Lake Agassiz covered much of what is now central Canada and the northern United States.

Geological Survey of Manitoba This relief map of the Sandilands Moraine clearly shows Lake Agassiz’s Upper and Lower Campbell Beaches, as well as its steep wave-cut cliffs. From Winnipeg, go ...

About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great Lakes of today combined. Close 🤍 Donate ...

Bill Redekop drove from near the Canada-U.S. border south of Morden up to Swan River, following one of giant phantom beaches of the ancient Lake Agassiz. Known as Campbell Beach, it forms part of the ...