Talk:List of prehistoric lakes

message: I've been updating and preparing several articles on prehistoric lakes.  I've found this list useful, but I would like to change the North American portion of the list.  Among my contacts, most interest is in a limited geographic area, i.e., Hudson's River in New York, or Lake Superior in Minnesota or Michigan.  Thus, by rearranging the list to a geographic basis, the more casual reader and student would be able to quickly locate related lakes.
Proposal:  Organize by watersheds, 1st Atlantic, 2nd Hudson Bay, 3rd Gulf of Mexico, 4th Pacific.  Within these greater areas, group by river systems.  Thus, the St. Lawrence River would have all the Great Lakes prehistoric/proglacial lakes by lake basin.  I've attached a sample below.  I believe this better meets the list criteria for wikipedia.
If there are no comments in the next week, I'll begin the change.  Chris Light (talk) 18:28, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed revision of list organization 

message: North American prehistoric lakes are arranged by major drainage systems and then from the most recent, progressively backwards in time.  When dates have not been identified, they are arranged alphabetically.
* Atlantic Ocean drainage:
** Glacial Lake Albany in the valley of the Hudson River.http://eos.tufts.edu/varves; retrieved May 12, 2014 
** Glacial Lake Block Island off the south coast of Rhode Island, west of Block Island.
** Glacial Lake Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
** Lake Colebrook on the border of Vermont and New Hampshire, crossing into Quebec.
** Lake Coos on the border of Vermont and New Hampshire.
**  Lake Connecticut; 20,000 – 18,000 YBP, covered Long Island Sound.<ref name=USGS81-3>U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-002; Geological Framework Data from Long Island Sound, 1981-1990: A Digital Data Release; CERC Technical Report 81-3; Sand Resources and Geological Character of Long Island Sound; S. Jeffress Williams; 1981
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**Lake Superior basin
*** Nipissing Great Lake: 5,500Reconstruction Low Lake Levels of Lake Michigan; Timothy Fisher; University of Toledo; Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program; University of Illinois; Urbana, IL; 2006 - 4,500 YBP</ref name=Larsen> Geological History of Glacial Lake Algonquin and the Upper Great Lakes; Curtis E. Larsen; U.S. Geological Survey bulletin; 1801; United States Government Printing Office; Washington, D.C.; 1987}
***Lake Nipissing; 8,400 – 5,500 YBP formed as the water bodies in the Superior and Huron basins merged across Sault Ste. Marie around 8,4000 YBP and then merged with the Michigan basin around 7,800.
*** Glacial Lake Houghton; 8,700 – 8,000 YBP covered the Superior basin in Ontario, Minnesota, [{Wisconsin]], and Michigan.
*** Glacial Fenton Lake; 9,500 YBP occupied the a shallow basin in the eastern side of Lake Superior after Lake Minong had shrunk below rock sills internal to the lake basin.A late Lake Minong transgression in the Lake Superior bain as documented by sediments from Fenton Lake, Ontario; Andy Breckenridge, Thomas V. Lowell, Timothy G. Fisher, Shiyong Yu; Springer Science +Business Media B.V.; 2010
*** Glacial Lake Minong; 10,300 – 9,800 YBP "Post-Valders Lake Stages in the Lake Superior Basin", in Glacial and Postglacial Geologic History of Isle Royale National Park, Michigan by N. King Huber, USGS Geological Survey Professional Paper 754-A covering most of the modern Superior basin.
***Post-Duluth Lake; 10,600 YBP along the Wisconsin and Michigan shore, reaching less than halfway across the basin.
*** Glacial Lake Duluth; 11,500 – 11,000 YBP in the western half of the Superior basin.
*** Glacial Lake St. Louis occupied St. Louis Bay at the southern tip of modern Lake Superior.
*** Lake Keeweenaw; 12,500 – 12,000 YBP in the western Superior basin.
* Mississippi River basin
** Glacial Lake Calvin in southeast Iowa
**Illinois River basin
***Lake Baroda in Michigan on the lower St. Joseph River.Using The Fluvial-Lacustrine Interface In A Glaciodeltaic Deposit To Redefine The Valparaiso Moraine, Berrien County, Michigan, USA
Kincare, K.A., Michigan Geological Survey Stone, B.D., and Newell, W.L., U.S. Geological Survey; 7thInternational Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology –Lincoln, Nebraska; ca 2000
===Revision===
Done.  Now doing minor editing and standardization of glacial lake names. Chris Light (talk) 23:02, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: North America

message: Done.  Now doing minor editing and standardization of glacial lake names. Chris Light (talk) 23:02, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Revision