Lake Peace was a post ice-age glacial lake in what is now the
Peace River basin in northeastern
British Columbia and northwestern
Alberta.
It formed approximately 14,000 BCE,[1][2] after the
Last Glacial Maximum, as the
Laurentide Ice Sheet and
Cordilleran Ice Sheet began to melt and retreat, and may have played an important role as an easily navigatable section of an inland human migration route[3] from Asia to the Americas.
It remains unclear[4] how long the lake lasted, or if it was drained in a
glacial lake outburst flood, similar to the
Missoula Floods that occurred on the southern[5] margins of these same ice sheets.
^Huntley, David H.; Hickin, Adrian S.; Lian, Olav B. (January 2017). "The pattern and style of deglaciation at the Late Wisconsinan Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheet limits in northeastern British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (1): 52–75.
doi:
10.1139/cjes-2016-0066.
hdl:1807/74519.
^Balbas, Andrea M.; Barth, Aaron M.; Clark, Peter U.; et al. (1 July 2017). "10Be dating of late Pleistocene megafloods and Cordilleran Ice Sheet retreat in the northwestern United States". Geology. 45 (7): 583–586.
doi:
10.1130/G38956.1.