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During the Pliocene to middle Pleistocene, pluvial lakes in the western Great Basin repeatedly rose to levels much higher than those of the well-documented late Pleistocene pluvial lakes, and some presently isolated basins were connected. Sedimentologic, geomorphic, and chronologic evidence at sites shown on the map indicates that Lakes Lahontan and Columbus-Rennie were as much as 70 m higher in the early-middle Pleistocene than during their late Pleistocene high stands. Lake Lahontan at its 1400-m shoreline level would submerge present-day Reno, Carson City, and Battle Mountain, and would flood other now-dry basins. To the east, Lakes Jonathan (new name), Diamond, Newark, and Hubbs also reached high stands during...
Tags: 06003 = Alpine,
06017 = El Dorado,
06035 = Lassen,
06049 = Modoc,
06051 = Mono, All tags...
06057 = Nevada,
06061 = Placer,
06063 = Plumas,
06091 = Sierra,
2200 - Hydrography,
2202 - Lakes,
2500 - Political Boundaries,
2501 - State Boundaries,
2600 - Topography,
41025 = Harney,
41037 = Lake,
41045 = Malheur,
Great Basin,
Lake Lahontan,
Nevada,
Pleistocene,
Pluvial lakes,
US32 = Nevada,
geoscientificInformation,
geospatial datasets,
lakes,
land surface characteristics,
paleoclimate,
paleogeography, Fewer tags
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