Glacial Flooding

Did You Know...

• A collapse of an ice dam in northern New York caused an abrupt climate cooling in the Northern Hemisphere that lasted several hundred years?
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• Glacial Lake Albany was a prehistoric North American proglacial lake that spanned approximately 160 miles—from present-day Newburgh to Glens Falls. Info
• Eons ago the Hudson River once flowed through New Jersey.
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• Pine Bush Barrens in Albany owes its origins to Glacial Lake Albany. Learn More

Learn more about how massive glacial flooding carved up North America:

• Glacial Lake Iroquois
• Lake Agassiz
• Lake Missoula
• How the Great Lakes Developed Map (Diagram)
• Mystery of the Megaflood (PBS Nova Series)