pluvial lake [A lake formed in a period of exceptionally heavy rainfall; specifically a lake formed in the Pleistocene epoch during a time of glacial advance, and now either extinct or existing as a remnant. Example: Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric lake in present Utah, eastern Nevada, and southern Idaho] ● Regenwassersee m
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(2014). pluvial lake . In: Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering/Wörterbuch GeoTechnik. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41714-6_162627
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