Lake Maumee

Lake Maumee
Stages of great lake development.
Lake Maumee
Location	North America
Group	Great Lakes
Coordinates	41°48′48″N 82°27′55″W / 41.8133°N 82.4652°W / 41.8133; -82.4652
Lake type	former lake
Etymology	Wabash River Sixmile Creek Channel, 780 ft (238 m) Imlay Outlet, 849 ft (259 m)
Primary inflows	Laurentide Ice Sheet
Primary outflows	Wabash River
Basin countries	Canada United States
First flooded	before 17,500 years before present
Max. length	326 mi (525 km)
Max. width	113 mi (182 km)
Residence time	1300 years in existence
Surface elevation	800 ft (244 m)[1]
References	The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan, History of the Great Lakes; Chapter XIII, Glacial Lake Maumee; Frank B. Taylor; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Vol LIII; Frank Leverett and Frank B. Taylor; Washington, D.C,; Government Printing Office; 1915

Lake Maumee was a proglacial lake and an ancestor of present-day Lake Erie. It formed about 17,500 calendar years, or 14,000 Radiocarbon Years Before Present (RCYBP) as the Huron-Erie Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation. As water levels continued to rise the lake evolved into Lake Arkona and then Lake Whittlesey.