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Pluvial lake

Pleistocene pluvial lakes and rivers of the Mojave Desert
Pluvial Lake Manix sediments (Pleistocene) in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California.
Ice Age pluvial lakes in the western United States

A pluvial lake is a body of water that accumulated in a basin because of a greater moisture availability resulting from changes in temperature and/or precipitation. These intervals of greater moisture availability are not always contemporaneous with glacial periods. Pluvial lakes are typically closed lakes that occupied endorheic basins. Pluvial lakes that have since evaporated and dried out may also be referred to as paleolakes.[1]

  1. ^ Goudie, A.S., 2013. and semi-arid geomorphology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00554-9

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