Lake Coleman was a large lake, in the same basin as
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border ...
, during an interglacial period, approximately 75,000 years ago.
[ Its level was higher than Lake Ontario.][
Lake Coleman was named after ]Arthur Philemon Coleman
Arthur Philemon Coleman (April 4, 1852 – February 26, 1939) was a Canadian geologist and academic.
Biography
Born in Lachute, Quebec, the son of Rev. Francis Coleman and Emmeline Maria Adams, he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1876 and Maste ...
, a respected geologist whose excavations played a role in discovering the existence of the lake.[
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See also
Glacial Lake Iroquois
Glacial Lake Iroquois was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago.
The lake was essentially an enlargement of the present Lake Ontario that formed because the St. Lawrence River down ...
, a prehistoric proglacial lake in the same basin as Lake Ontario that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. The level of the lake was approximately 30 meters (~100 ft) above the present level of Lake Ontario.
References
Coleman
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