Great Tehuelche Paleolake

The Paleolake Tehuelche is the name for several former lakes that existed in the area of Torres del Paine in southern Patagonia.^[1] These were proglacial lakes that existed next to the Patagonian Ice Sheet during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.^[1]^[2] Some of the evidence of the lakes stem from lake terraces observable at present but these is some uncertainty on which terraces are associated to which lake or lake stage.^[1]

About 38,000 years BP an early Paleolake Tehuelche existed and drained eastward through Turbio River. The surface of this lake was 250 to 280 m a.s.l.^[1]

A particular lake named Great Tehuelche Paleolake covered what is now Sarmiento and Del Toro lakes plus a large area to east making Cazador Range a peninsula^[2] until about 7,113 years BP when the lake drained and ceased to exist.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d García, Juan-Luis; Hall, Brenda L.; Kaplan, Michael R.; Vega, Rodrigo M.; Strelin, Jorge A. (2014). "Glacial geomorphology of the Torres del Paine region (southern Patagonia): Implications for glaciation, deglaciation and paleolake history". Geomorphology. 204: 599–616. Bibcode:2014Geomo.204..599G. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.08.036.
^ ^a ^b ^c Solari, Marcelo A.; Le Roux, Jacobus P.; Hervé, Francisco; Airo, Alessandro; Calderón, Mauricio (2012). "Evolution of the Great Tehuelche Paleolake in the Torres del Paine National Park of Chilean Patagonia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene" (PDF). Andean Geology. 39 (1): 1–21. doi:10.5027/andgeoV39N1-a01.

Pleistocene proglacial lakes and related seas

Africa

Lake Makgadikgadi
Lake Ptolemy

Antarctica

Lake Washburn

Asia

Europe

Baltic Sea	Ancylus Lake Baltic Ice Lake Littorina Sea Mastogloia Sea Yoldia Sea
Russia	Lake Komi
Great Britain	Lake Harrison Lake Lapworth Lake Pickering

North America

Nelson River drainage	Proglacial lakes of Minnesota Lake Agassiz Lake Bassano Lake Souris
James Bay drainage	Lake Ojibway Tyrrell Sea
Great Lakes	Lake Admiralty Lake Algonquin (Multiple basins) Lake Arkona Lake Chicago Lake Chippewa Lake Duluth Early Lake Erie Lake Frontenac Lake Houghton (glacial) Glacial Lake Iroquois Lake Lundy Lake Dana Lake Maumee Lake Minong Nipissing Great Lakes (Multiple basins) Early Lake Ontario Lake Saginaw Lake Stanley Lake Tonawanda Lake Warren Lake Wayne Lake Whittlesey Champlain Sea
Columbia River system	Lake Allison Glacial Lake Columbia Lake Lewis Glacial Lake Missoula
Great Basin system	Lake Bonneville Lake Lahontan
Puget Sound system	Glacial Lake Russell Glacial Lake Hood Lake Nisqually Lake Puyallup Glacial Lake Sammamish Lake Skokomish
Upper Missouri River	Lake Cut Bank Lake Chouteau Lake Great Falls Lake Circle Lake Jordan (Montana) Lake Musselshell Lake Glendive Lake McKenzie
Upper Mississippi drainage	Lake Kankakee Kankakee Outwash Plain Lake Wisconsin
Ohio drainage	Lake Monongahela Lake Tight Teays River
Hudson valley	Lake Albany Lake Passaic
New England	Lake Cape Cod Lake Connecticut Lake Hitchcock Lake Merrimack Lake Nantucket Sound Lake Stowe
California	Lake Cahuilla Lake Corcoran Lake Harper Lake Manix Lake Manly Lake Modoc Lake Mojave Lake Panamint Lake Russell Lake Tecopa Lake Thompson
Rio Grande Rift	Lake Alamosa Lake Estancia Lake Palomas Lake San Agustín
Alaska	Lake Atna