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    Lake Lahontan was a large endorheic prehistoric lake during the Pleistocene that occupied modern northwestern Nevada and extended into northeastern California...
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    Modern Lake Lahontan is a reservoir on the Carson River in northwest Nevada in the United States. It is formed by the Lahontan Dam, built in 1905 by the...
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    Nevada, United States. Pyramid Lake is the biggest remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan, the inland sea that once covered much of western Nevada. It is approximately...
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    Lahontan State Recreation Area is a public recreation area surrounding Lake Lahontan, a 17-mile-long (27 km) impoundment of the Carson River, located approximately...
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    expanded lakes during the Late Pleistocene, including Lake Lahontan in northwestern Nevada. Shorelines of Lake Bonneville are visible above Salt Lake City...
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    chemical composition of the different tufa types in Lake Lahontan, a large Pleistocene system of multiple lakes in California, Nevada, and Oregon. Not surprisingly...
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  • Lahontan can refer to: Lake Lahontan Lahontan Valley Lahontan Dam Lake Lahontan (reservoir) Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan, Baron de Lahontan...
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    During the Pleistocene, Honey Lake and the entire Honey Lake Valley were part of Lake Lahontan in western Nevada, with a lake water level of 1,332 m (4,370 ft)...
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    massive Lake Lahontan during the ice ages until the lake shrank to remnants such as Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake about 7,000 years ago, although Lake Tahoe—from...
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    into the Truckee Canal that would otherwise enter Pyramid Lake. The canal feeds Lake Lahontan reservoir in the Carson River watershed, where it is used...
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    influenced by Pleistocene lakes that dried after the last ice age: Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville. Each of these lakes left different amounts of salinity...
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    The Lahontan Valley is a basin in Churchill County, Nevada, United States. The valley is a landform of the central portion of the prehistoric Lake Lahontan's...
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    the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan. The Great Basin, named for the geography in which water is unable to...
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    century, when the existence of Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville was first described. The possibility of a former lake in Death Valley was also considered...
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  • Nevada, which operates dams at Lake Tahoe, diversion dams on the Truckee River in Washoe County, and the Lake Lahontan reservoir. TCD also operates 380...
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    many pictographs left by the inhabitants of the area at the time of Lake Lahontan.[citation needed] This area also has some interesting tufa formations...
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    Carson Sink (category Lahontan Basin)
    body Lake Lahontan, the lakebed of which is now the Lahontan Basin. The Carson Trail, used during the California Gold Rush across the Lahontan Basin...
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    throughout much of the lake. Lahontan cutthroat trout no longer occur in the lake and recent work by researchers indicates that the lake's tui chub have disappeared...
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    off the coast. Lake Tanganyika in Africa. Currently high enough to connect to rivers entering the sea. Lake Lahontan in North America. Lake Bonneville in...
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    Bonneville Lake Eyre, Australia Lake Lahontan Lake Manix Great Salt Lake Lake Manly Neopluvial Proglacial lake CA-SCR-177 "Lake Cabonera" Goudie, A.S., 2013...
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    These four species are the Coastal (O. clarkii), Westslope (O. lewisi), Lahontan (O. henshawi), and the Rocky Mountain (O. virginalis). As a member of the...
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    Lake Agassiz (/ˈæɡəsi/ AG-ə-see) was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the...
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    Sink. Lovelock Cave is in the Lake Lahontan region, next to the former lakebed of Lake Lahontan. It was formed by the lake's currents and wave action. It...
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    is known as the Lahontan Reservoir or Lake Lahontan. It is currently operated by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District. The Lahontan Dam was built by...
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    of ancient Lake Lahontan sediments. The Soda Lakes volcano's age is inferred as less than 6,000 years because it is younger than the lake sediments. Fault...
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  • & Idaho: Lake Lahontan; 12,700 – 9,000 YBP in Nevada, California and Oregon. Lake Alvord in Oregon and Nevada Lake Amboy in California Lake Bonneville;...
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    119°59'36.59"W). Winnemucca Lake is a sub-basin within the Lahontan Basin in northwestern Nevada. It lies east of Pyramid Lake and is on the dividing line...
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    Lake Lahontan) fed by Truckee River-Lake Tahoe (California, Nevada) Honey Lake-Eagle Lake (California) Walker Lake (another remnant of Lake Lahontan)...
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    precipitation is retained temporarily on the surface in the lakes. Streams meander from lake to lake, and only part of the total precipitation is carried away...
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  • Thumbnail for Alkali Lakes (California)
    of Glacial Lake Lahontan, which existed up until about 12,000 years ago during the last ice age. Sediment deposits indicate Lake Lahontan was up to 550...
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