Lake Agassiz
![Map of the extent of Lake Agassiz in central North America, by 19th century geologist [[Warren Upham]]. The regions covered by the lake were significantly larger than shown here.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Agassiz.jpg)
First postulated in 1823 by William H. Keating, it was named by Warren Upham in 1879 after Louis Agassiz, the then recently deceased (1873) founder of glaciology, when Upham recognized that the lake was formed by glacial action. Provided by Wikipedia
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