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The West Siberian Glacial Lake, also known as West Siberian Lake or Mansiyskoe Lake ((ロシア語:Мансийское озеро)), was a periglacial lake formed when the Arctic Ocean outlets for each of the Ob and Yenisei rivers were blocked by the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet during the Weichselian Glaciation, approximately 80,000 years ago. At its maximum extent, the lake's surface area was more than twice that of the present-day Caspian Sea. It is theorized that although drainage to the Arctic Ocean basin (e.g. by the Ob and Yenisei Rivers) was prevented, the lake would eventually overflow to the Mediterranean Sea through a circuitous route that would include the Aral Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Black Sea. This would have resulted in water from the Selenga River and Lake Baikal draining over a course of some , considerably longer than any river's course today.〔Dutch, Steve, Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. "Pleistocene Glaciers and Geography" (webpage ) (accessed 30 November 2006)〕 See Mangerud et al. (2004)〔Mangerud, J. et al. (2004). ''Ice-dammed lakes and rerouting of the drainage of northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation.'' Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (2004), pp. 1313–1332. () (accessed 30 November 2006)〕 for diagrams and descriptions of the lake as well as postulated drainage patterns. ==See also== * Nerpa, a freshwater seal of Lake Baikal probably related to Caspian seals. * Turgai Straits or West Siberian Sea, a Cretaceous to Eocene extension of the Tethys Sea separating Europe and Asia * Paratethys 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Siberian Glacial Lake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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