Lake Tecopa (Q48803047)

  • matcher place: Inyo County (relation 396491)
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  • English Wikipedia categories: Former lakes of the United States, Natural history of Inyo County, California, Pleistocene North America
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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Lake Tecopa is a former lake in Inyo County, southern California. It developed during the Miocene and the Pleistocene within a tectonic basin close to the border with Nevada. Fed by the Amargosa River and some neighbouring washes, it eventually culminated to a surface area of 235 square kilometres (91 sq mi) around 186,000 years ago and left sediments. Afterwards, the Amargosa River cut a gorge out of the lake and into Death Valley with its Lake Manly, draining the lake. The present-day towns of Shoshone, California and Tecopa, California lie within the basin of the former lake.

Wikidata location: 35.8750, -116.2500 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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