7 facts about ice age

The Glacial Lakes Are Entirely Freshwater

Glacial lakes are made up of freshwater and it is as simple as that. Freshwater refers to the water, not from the sea and is entirely fresh. These lakes are isolated by land on all sides but there are lakes are connected to the ocean.

Given that the ice is entirely made out of freshwater, rather than saltwater, almost all of the ice collected during the Ice Age is made up of freshwater. The freshwater lakes were produced after the ice started to melt at the end of the Ice Age.

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