Geologists Dig Up One Of The Largest Lakes In The World, Dammed By Ice During Last Ice Age

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 21:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Geologists are digging in the bed on the western bank of what was once a 700-800 kilometre-long lake along the 62nd parallel in Russia. Large lakes, dammed up by a huge ice sheet one or more times during the last Ice Age, used to dominate this enormous plain.

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