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Lake Alamosa is a former lake in Colorado. It existed from the Pliocene to the middle Pleistocene in the San Luis Valley, fed by glacial meltwater from surrounding mountain ranges. Water levels waxed and waned with the glacial stages until at highstand the lake (high water level in the lake) reached an elevation of 2,335 meters (7,661 ft) and probably a surface of over 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 sq mi), but only sparse remains of the former waterbody are visible today. The existence of the lake was postulated in the early 19th century and eventually proven in the early 20th century. The lake eventually overflowed into the Rio Grande river system during the middle Pleistocene. The overflow cut down a valley that eventually drained the lake, leaving only the San Luis Closed Basin as a remnant. The Alamosa Formation is a rock formation left by the lake. Groundwater resources are contained trapped between sediments left by the former lake. (en) |
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1193/%7Ctitle=2007 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/660/chapter/3807027%7Cwork=New https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018213004185 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589413001117%7Clanguage=en https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379119301027 |
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Jacob Fowler (en) |
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United States of America (en) |
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Simulation of Lake Alamosa's surface, looking towards Blanca Peak (en) |
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Lake Alamosa (en) |
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Colorado (en) |
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Location of the former lake in Colorado, USA. (en) |
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I Have no doubt but the River from the Head of those Rocks up for about one Hundred miles Has once been a lake of about from forty to fifty miles Wide and about two Hundred feet deep—and that the running and dashing of the Watter Has Woren a Way the Rocks So as to form the present Chanel. (en) |
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Lake Alamosa is a former lake in Colorado. It existed from the Pliocene to the middle Pleistocene in the San Luis Valley, fed by glacial meltwater from surrounding mountain ranges. Water levels waxed and waned with the glacial stages until at highstand the lake (high water level in the lake) reached an elevation of 2,335 meters (7,661 ft) and probably a surface of over 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 sq mi), but only sparse remains of the former waterbody are visible today. The existence of the lake was postulated in the early 19th century and eventually proven in the early 20th century. (en) |
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Lake Alamosa (en) |
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Lake Alamosa (en) |
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