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 File:Lake bonneville map.svg
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English: Pleistocene epoch map showing the extent of the Lake Bonneville Flood and Pleistocene lakes in northwestern United States around 14.5000 radiocarbon years (~17,500 calendar years) before present.
 
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Present day Lake
 
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  • Based on this map by Laura DeGrey, Myles Miller and Paul Link of Idaho State University, Dept. of Geosciences.
  • Inset North America map from File:America-blank-map-01.svg
  • Lakes in Western Great Basin sourced from USGS, Extent of Pleistocene Lakes in the Western Great Basin by Marith Reheis, 1999.
  • Further sourced from SERC, Carleton College, Reheis and Bright, 2009.
  • Coastline based on The Pacific Northwest Coast: Living With the Shores of Washington and Oregon, Paul D. Komar and USGS map.
 
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    current22:29, 11 September 2014Thumbnail for version as of 22:29, 11 September 2014663 × 570 (352 KB)LiandreiFixed alignment
    22:27, 11 September 2014Thumbnail for version as of 22:27, 11 September 2014663 × 570 (352 KB)LiandreiRemoved ambiguous arrows from Lake Missoula and those pointing from the Sacramento River to Lake Lahontan per POTD/2014-09-15 discussion.
    11:12, 21 April 2013Thumbnail for version as of 11:12, 21 April 2013663 × 570 (352 KB)LiandreiFixed Mexico
    11:04, 21 April 2013Thumbnail for version as of 11:04, 21 April 2013666 × 570 (320 KB)LiandreiWidened and moved boxes to left
    22:52, 20 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 22:52, 20 March 2013650 × 570 (395 KB)Liandreitiny tweak
    01:27, 20 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 01:27, 20 March 2013650 × 570 (395 KB)Liandreitweaks
    01:21, 13 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 01:21, 13 March 2013650 × 570 (521 KB)Liandreiforgot to remove error from inkscape again...
    01:19, 13 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 01:19, 13 March 2013650 × 570 (521 KB)Liandreitweakage
    01:09, 13 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 01:09, 13 March 2013650 × 570 (521 KB)LiandreiAdded coastline & made valid svg
    05:01, 12 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 05:01, 12 March 2013650 × 570 (396 KB)OrionistFixed errors to validate SVG, removed white rectangles and cropped extraneous parts of the maps, reduced file size, and did some other cosmetic changes.

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    The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
    ●Bonneville flood
    ●Great Salt Lake
    ●Lake Bonneville
    ●Lake Lahontan
    ●Last Glacial Period
    ●Pluvial lake
    ●Pyramid Lake (Nevada)
    ●Tollmann's bolide hypothesis
    ●Talk:Lake Bonneville
    ●User talk:Liandrei/2013
    ●User talk:Liandrei/2014
    ●User talk:Orionist/Archives
    ●User talk:TCO
    ●Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/April-2013
    ●Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lake Bonneville map
    ●Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
    ●Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs/34
    ●Wikipedia:Main Page history/2014 September 15
    ●Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 2014
    ●Template:POTD/2014-09-15

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    ●Usage on ca.wikipedia.org

    ●Llac Bonneville

    ●Usage on fa.wikipedia.org

    ●دریاچه بارانی

    ●Usage on fr.wikipedia.org

    ●Lac Bonneville
    ●Lac Lahontan (lac préhistorique)

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    ●Columbia (fiume)

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    ●Bonnevillesjøen

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    ●Bonnevillesjøen

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    ●Bonneville (jezioro)
    ●Jezioro Lahontan

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    ●Lago Bonneville

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    ●Bonnevillesjön

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    ●Бонневіль (озеро)
    ●Лахонтан
    ●Бонневільська повінь

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    ●Fiume Columbia

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