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English: Pleistocene epoch map showing the extent of the Lake Bonneville Flood and Pleistocene lakes in northwestern United States around 14.5000 radiocarbon years (~17,500 calendar years) before present.
 
Ice Sheet
 
Pleistocene Lake
 
Present day Lake
 
Direction of flood
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  • Based on this map by Laura DeGrey, Myles Miller and Paul Link of Idaho State University, Dept. of Geosciences.
  • Inset North America map from File:America-blank-map-01.svg
  • Lakes in Western Great Basin sourced from USGS, Extent of Pleistocene Lakes in the Western Great Basin by Marith Reheis, 1999.
  • Further sourced from SERC, Carleton College, Reheis and Bright, 2009.
  • Coastline based on The Pacific Northwest Coast: Living With the Shores of Washington and Oregon, Paul D. Komar and USGS map.
 
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