Lake Albany

Proglacial and prehistoric lakes of New England during the end of the Wisconsin Glacial Epoch of the Pleistocene Era. Based on map from 'Re-evaluation of Antevs' New England varve chronology and new radiocarbon dates of sediments from glacial Lake Hitchcock'; JOHN C. RIDGE and FREDERICK D. LARSEN

Glacial Lake Albany was a prehistoric North American proglacial lake that formed during the end of the Wisconsinan glaciation.[1][2] It existed between 15,000 and 12,600 years ago[3] 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.[1][4] Organic materials in Lake Albany deposits have been carbon dated to approximately 11,700 years ago.[5] The lake spanned approximately 160 miles (260 km) from present-day Poughkeepsie to Glens Falls.[1][3][6]

Lake Albany drained about 10,500 years ago through the Hudson River due to post-glacial rebound.[1][6][7] 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.[8] Dune and deltaic sands, containing lenses of silty sand, silt and clay,[9] compose the topsoil which now underlies the Albany Pine Bush.[10] Beneath the surficial deposits are lake-bottom silt and clay, which overlie till and shale bedrock.[9] 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.[11]

## Contents

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

## See also

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

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Origins of the Albany Pine Bush". Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission. http://www.albanypinebush.org/preserve_information/natural_cultural_history/natural_cultural_history.htm.
2. ↑ Dawicki, Shelley (2004-12-15). "Catastrophic Flooding from Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period". http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=9779&tid=282&cid=2078&ct=162.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "How did this land form?". SUNY ESF. August 2001. p. 2. http://www.esf.edu/rwls/research/karnerblue/module7.pdf.
4. ↑ 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". Northeastern Friends of the Pleistocene. University of Maine. http://www.geology.um.maine.edu/friends/pdf/NEFOP2008.pdf.
5. ↑ Franzi, David A.; Rayburn, John A.; Knuepfer, Peter L.K.; Cronin, Thomas M. (June 2007). "Late Quaternary History of Northeastern New York and Adjacent Parts of Vermont and Quebec". Northeastern Friends of the Pleistocene. University of Maine. http://www.geology.um.maine.edu/friends/pdf/2007Guide.pdf.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Geological History of the New York Area". Skidmore College. http://www.skidmore.edu/sssg4/environment/geology.htm.
7. ↑ "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.
8. ↑ "Surficial Geology: Sand Dunes". New York State Geological Survey. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/nysgs/research/surficial/index.html.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 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. http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/bgas/publications/GWMR_1993/.
10. ↑ 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.
11. ↑ "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.

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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

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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

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