The Icy Origins of the Finger Lakes

Huge sheets of ice carved out the U-shaped valleys that hold New York’s Finger Lakes. When they retreated north about 10,000 years ago, glaciers left deposits of gravel that dammed streams and caused the depressions to become lakes.

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NASA image courtesy of the LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published November 30, 2013
Data acquired May 6, 2013

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Collection:

MODIS Rapid Response