Don't cry over spilled water.

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What giant Canadian lake is said
to have caused large climatic changes
when it drained into the Atlantic
just over 8 millennia ago ?

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babthrower

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Champlain Sea.

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No, this is not the body of
water I am looking for. This is
a lake, and the timeframe mentioned
is the critical element.

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babthrower

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I'll try one more guess:

Lake Iroquois

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Nope !

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babthrower

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(Sigh!)

I give up. Superior, Erie, Huron and Ontario were melded then, so it can't be one of them. Oh, well.

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Tree

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I think it's Lake Erie!

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Jenny Roberts

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Lake Agassiz?

http://www.voy.com/135010/65.html

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Jenny is quite right !

Thanks for the answers
babthrower, Tree & Jenny Roberts.

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