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Glacial Lake Wisconsin, located near what is now the town of Baraboo, was a proglacial prehistoric lake existing from around eighteen thousand to around fourteen thousand years ago, near the end of the planet’s last Ice Age. As the climate of the region warmed and the glacier started to retreat, causing the water from the lake to reopen the path throughout the Baraboo Hills. As the glacier melted, a larger channel was created, leading to a torrent and then a flood. New channels were cut upstream through the lake’s sand bottom and then the Cambrian sandstone underneath, forming the Wisconsin Dells.
Baraboo, WI
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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