Lake Albany

Short description: Prehistoric proglacial lake

Lake Albany

Proglacial and prehistoric lakes of New England during the end of the Wisconsin Glacial Epoch of the Pleistocene Era

Lake Albany

Show map of New York

Lake Albany

Show map of the United States

Location| between Poughkeepsie, New York at its northern-most tip to near Glenn Falls, New York at its southern-most end
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 42°43′06″N 73°51′52″W﻿ / ﻿42.7183°N 73.8644°W﻿ / 42.7183; -73.8644
Type| Proglacial lake
rivers, streams, precipitation">Primary inflows| Lake Vermont
rivers, streams, evaporation">Primary outflows| Hudson River
Basin countries| United States
Max. length| 160 miles (260 km)
References| Coordinates approximated using details in International Oaks[1]

Glacial Lake Albany was a prehistoric North American proglacial lake that formed during the end of the Wisconsinan glaciation.[2][3] It existed between 15,000 and 12,600 years ago and was created when meltwater from a retreating glacier, along with water from rivers such as the Iromohawk, became ice dammed in the Hudson Valley.[2][4][5]

Organic materials in Lake Albany deposits have been carbon dated to approximately 11,700 years ago.[6]The lake spanned approximately 160 miles (260 km) from present-day Poughkeepsie to Glens Falls.[2][4][7]

Lake Albany drained about 10,500 years ago through the Hudson River due to post-glacial rebound.[2][7][8] When the lake drained it exposed the sandy and gravelly glaciolacustrine deposits left by the glacier, along a broad plain just west of Schenectady, where the Mohawk emptied into the lake.[9] Dune and deltaic sands, containing lenses of silty sand, silt and clay,[10] compose the topsoil which now underlies the Albany Pine Bush.[11] Beneath the surficial deposits are lake-bottom silt and clay, which overlie till and shale bedrock.[10] A small rill caused by the lake's drainage created Patroon Creek, Sand Creek, Lisha Kill, Shaker Creek, Delphus Kill and the Salt Kill in the town of Colonie, New York.[12]

## Contents

* 1 See also
* 2 References
* 3 Further reading
* 4 External links

## See also

* Champlain Sea
* Lake Hitchcock
* Lake Merrimack
* Lake Stowe

## References

1. ↑ "The Albany Pine Bush: a Local Oak Hotspot in Upstate New York | International Oak Society". https://www.internationaloaksociety.org/content/albany-pine-bush-local-oak-hotspot-upstate-new-york.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Origins of the Albany Pine Bush". Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission. 2005. http://www.albanypinebush.org/preserve_information/natural_cultural_history/natural_cultural_history.htm.
3. ↑ "Catastrophic Flooding from Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 20 December 2004. http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=9779&tid=3622&cid=2078.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "How did this land form?". State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. August 2001. http://www.esf.edu/rwls/research/karnerblue/module7.pdf.
5. ↑ De Simone, David J.; Wall, Gary R.; Miller, Norton G.; Rayburn, John A.; Kozlowski, Andrew L. (May–June 2008). "Glacial Geology of the Northern Hudson through Southern Champlain Lowlands". University of Maine. http://www.geology.um.maine.edu/friends/pdf/NEFOP2008.pdf.
6. ↑ "Late Quaternary History of Northeastern New York and Adjacent Vermont and Quebec". Northeast Friends Of The Pleistocene. June 2007. http://www.geology.um.maine.edu/friends/pdf/2007Guide.pdf.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Geological History of the New York Area". Skidmore College. 2004. http://www.skidmore.edu/sssg4/environment/geology.htm.
8. ↑ "State University of New York at Albany - Edward Durrell Stone's architecture, atmospheric science, and the geology under it". University at Albany, SUNY. http://www.albany.edu/geosciences/sunyageo.html.
9. ↑ "Surficial Geology: Sand Dunes". New York State Geological Survey. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/nysgs/research/surficial/index.html.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Williams, John H.; Lapham, Wayne W.; Barringer, Thomas H. (1993). "Application of Electromagnetic Logging to Contamination Investigations in Glacial San-and-Gravel Aquifers". Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation (USGS) 13 (3): 130–131. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6592.1993.tb00082.x. Bibcode: 1993GMRed..13c.129W. http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/bgas/publications/GWMR_1993/.
11. ↑ Burger, Joanna (2006). Whispers in the Pines: a Naturalist in the Northeast. Rutgers University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8135-3794-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=fZgFzfOo_xAC&q=glacial+lake+albany&pg=PT73. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
12. ↑ "Town of Colonie: A Draft Comprehensive Plan". Town of Colonie. May 2005. p. 23. http://www.colonie.org/pedd/compplan/Appendix 5-5-05.pdf.

## Further reading

* Reynolds, Richard J. (1997). "Hydrogeology of the Schodack-Kinderhook Area, Rensselaer and Columbia Counties, New York". USGS. http://ny.water.usgs.gov/pubs/of/of97639/OF97-639.plate2big.pdf.
* Ruggiero, Kathleen M.; Rodbell, Donald T.; Garver, John I. (2008). "The Geological Evolution of Collins Lake, Scotia, New York, as Revealed From Sub-Bottom Profiles and Sediment Core Analysis". Union College. http://minerva.union.edu/garverj/mohawk/collins_profile.html.
* "New York State Geological Association 39th Annual Meeting". The New York State Geological Association. May 5–7, 1967. http://www.nysga.net/files/32068439.pdf.

Template:Capital District

* v
* t
* e

Pleistocene proglacial lakes and related seas

Africa|

* Lake Makgadikgadi

Asia|

* West Siberian Glacial Lake
* Lake Tengger

Europe|

* Ancylus Lake
* Baltic Ice Lake
* Lake Harrison
* Lake Komi
* Lake Lapworth
* Lake Pickering
* Littorina Sea
* Mastogloia Sea
* Yoldia Sea

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
* Lake Dana
* 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 Allison
* Lake Bonneville
* Glacial Lake Columbia
* Lake Lahontan
* Lake Lewis
* Lake Missoula

Puget Sound system|

* Glacial Lake Russell
* Glacial Lake Hood
* Lake Nisqually
* Lake Puyallup
* Glacial Lake Sammamish
* Lake Skokomish

Upper Missouri River|

* Lake Cut Bank
* Lake Chouteau
* Lake Great Falls
* Lake Circle
* Lake Jordan (Montana)
* Lake Musselshell
* Lake Glendive
* Lake McKenzie

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 Corcoran
* Lake Harper
* Lake Manix
* Lake Manly
* Lake Mojave
* Lake Panamint
* Lake Russell
* Lake Tecopa
* Lake Thompson

New Mexico|

* Lake Palomas

Alaska|

* Lake Atna

South America|

* Lake Ballivián
* Cabana
* Lake Escara
* Inca Huasi
* Mataro
* Lake Minchin
* Ouki
* Sajsi
* Salinas
* Lake Tauca
* Great Tehuelche Paleolake

Summary|

* List of prehistoric lakes

## External links

0.00

(0 votes)

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake Albany. Read more

|

Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Earth:Lake_Albany&oldid=4000947"
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template