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Place Name
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Lahontan, Lake
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Place Status (Type)
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lake
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Location
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Nevada, United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Lahontan, Lake
, extinct lake, W Nev. and NE Calif. Formed
during wet periods coinciding with glacial surges during the
Pleistocene epoch and, with L. Bonneville (Utah). Occupied a
part of the Great Basin region. L. Lahontan retreated shortly after the
Pleistocene epoch, but Pyramid, Winnemucca, and Walker lakes and Carson
Sink are its remnants. Marine reptile fossils at Berlin-Ichthyosaur
State Park, 70 mi/113 km SE of Fallon, (Nev.;
archaeological dig). Lahontan Reservoir, on Carson R., in NW.
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