Louis Agassiz
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Agassiz, c. 1865
Portrait by Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1844
Agassiz (seated) with Benjamin Peirce
Portrait photograph by John Adams Whipple, circa 1865
Lake Agassiz
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Lake Agassiz was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial per
Louis Agassiz
…school, the Agassiz Elementary School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, existed from 1922 to 1981. An ancient glacial lake that formed in central North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz in the Uinta Mountains of Utah, Agassiz Peak in Arizona, Agassiz…
Traverse Gap in the riverbed of Glacial River Warren. The former southern outlet of Lake Agassiz and source of River Warren is at Lake Traverse at the bottom of the photo; the flooded valley in the center (now Browns Valley) and Big Stone Lake in the distance are relics of the river.
Lockhart Phase of Lake Agassiz, c. 13,000 YBP. Teller and Leverington, 2004 (U.S. Geological Survey)