Glacial Lake Nantucket Sound

Glacial Lake Nantucket Sound was a glacial lake that formed during the late Pleistocene epoch inside modern Nantucket Sound. After the Laurentide ice sheet retreated, glacial ice melt washed over the terminal moraine of Cape Cod and the glacial meltwater settled in the modern day sound, creating the lake.

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Pleistocene proglacial lakes and related seas

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Nelson River Drainage	Proglacial lakes of Minnesota Lake Agassiz Lake Bassano Lake Souris

James Bay Drainage	Lake Ojibway Tyrrell Sea

Great Lakes	Lake Admiralty Lake Algonquin (Multiple basins) Lake Arkona Lake Chicago Lake Chippewa Lake Duluth Early Lake Erie Lake Frontenac Lake Houghton (glacial) Glacial Lake Iroquois Lake Lundy and Dana Mackinac Falls Lake Maumee Lake Minong Nipissing Great Lakes (Multiple basins) Early Lake Ontario Lake Saginaw Lake Stanley Lake Tonawanda Lake Warren Lake Wayne Lake Whittlesey Champlain Sea

Columbia River System	Lake Bonneville Glacial Lake Columbia Lake Lahontan Lake Missoula

Upper Missouri River	Lake Circle Lake Cut Bank Lake Glendive Lake Great Falls Lake Jordan (Montana) Lake Musselshell

Upper Mississippi Drainage	Lake Kankakee Kankakee Outwash Plain Lake Wisconsin

Ohio Drainage	Lake Monongahela Lake Tight Teays River

Hudson valley	Lake Albany Lake Passaic

New England	Lake Cape Cod Lake Connecticut Lake Hitchcock Lake Merrimack Lake Nantucket Sound Lake Stowe

California	Lake Cahuilla Lake Manly

South America

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