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FkDahl's avatar

The Baltic was occasionally a fresh water lake

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Miguel García Álvarez's avatar

Indeed, known as the Ancylus Lake. I wrote about the Baltic Sea a few months ago, and it included a bit of the past lake period: https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/baltic-ice-and-its-advantages

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Eldar Sofer's avatar

Very interesting! You, Miguel, are a true Mega-Chad

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Miguel García Álvarez's avatar

Thank you!

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M. E. Rothwell's avatar

Hat tip to the namer of Lake Mega-Chad

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Miguel García Álvarez's avatar

So you made me dig into who coined the term.

It seems it just showed up as a popular way of referring to Megalake Chad, which is the official term that was used for decades in Academia, since Jean Tilho first proposed the ancient lake. It's not clear who might have been the first to use it.

Maybe it was just someone using hyperbaton to show off their creative-writing skills 🙂

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