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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

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    Lac Bonneville

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