The Lake Erie Islands are a chain of archipelagic islands in Lake Erie, geologically formed from the Silurian-age Columbus Limestone. When Pleistocene ice sheets carved out the Lake Erie basin, this harder limestone resisted erosion better than the shale to the east, leaving the islands standing above the lake's shallower western end. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Lake Erie Islands
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, found in there.
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List of Lake Erie Islands (Wikipedia)
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The Lake Erie Islands are a chain of archipelagic islands in Lake Erie.
Wikidata: Lake Erie Islands
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