Talk:Lake Great Falls

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Elevation of Lake Great Falls
The elevation you give for Lake Great Falls (11,000 feet) is very much wrong. The 3,500 meters elevation for the lake, would, if it were 3,500 feet, be approximately correct. The lake actually is supposed to have had two phases, one with a maximum elevation ( estimated) around 3,700 feet and the other at an elevation around 3,900 feet. The lake, in both phases, was ordinarily a little lower. The house where I grew up was at about 3,750 feet elevation, and the hill just to the west of it, at an elevation just over 4,000 feet, is supposed to have been an island in the higher phase of the lake. It had a rounded summit, all glacial till, and fairly steep slopes, I suppose the slopes were about twenty five degrees. I have read that the Lewis and Clark diamond, somewhere around 13 carats, may have floated to where it was found, near Craig, on an ice floe in the lake. The diamond is suspected to have originated in Saskatchewan or Manitoba in Canada. People have speculated that there are hundreds, maybe thousands of carats in diamonds in moraines left by the Lauren tide ice sheet. No practical way to find them, though. We did find a few agates. 24.234.144.212 (talk) 00:29, 25 January 2022 (UTC)