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Lake Michigan-Huron is a designation given to the body of water (part of the North American Great Lakes
Great Lakes

The St. Lawrence River Great Lakes are a chain of fresh water lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada ? United States border. Consisting of Lakes Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth....
) traditionally considered to be two separate lakes: Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. The third-largest of the Great Lakes, it is bounded, from west to east, by the U.S....
 and Lake Huron
Lake Huron

Lake Huron, bounded on the west by the U.S. state of Michigan, and on the east by the Provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario, Canada, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America....
. Hydrologically, however, they are a single body of water: They lie at the same surface elevation, , rise and fall together, and the flow between them through the Straits of Mackinac
Straits of Mackinac

The Straits of Mackinac is the strip of water that connects two of the Great Lakes , Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and separates the Lower Peninsula of Michigan from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan....
—which are wide and deep—sometimes reverses from eastward to westward.






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Lake Michigan-Huron is a designation given to the body of water (part of the North American Great Lakes
Great Lakes

The St. Lawrence River Great Lakes are a chain of fresh water lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada ? United States border. Consisting of Lakes Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth....
) traditionally considered to be two separate lakes: Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. The third-largest of the Great Lakes, it is bounded, from west to east, by the U.S....
 and Lake Huron
Lake Huron

Lake Huron, bounded on the west by the U.S. state of Michigan, and on the east by the Provinces and territories of Canada of Ontario, Canada, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America....
. Hydrologically, however, they are a single body of water: They lie at the same surface elevation, , rise and fall together, and the flow between them through the Straits of Mackinac
Straits of Mackinac

The Straits of Mackinac is the strip of water that connects two of the Great Lakes , Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and separates the Lower Peninsula of Michigan from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan....
—which are wide and deep—sometimes reverses from eastward to westward. If designated as a single entity, Lake Michigan-Huron would be the largest of the Great Lakes, and indeed the largest lake in the world, in terms of surface area (though smaller than the Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the List of lakes by area or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers ....
). Lake Superior
Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by Ontario, Canada and Minnesota, United States, and to the south by the U.S....
 still holds more water, containing of water compared with Michigan-Huron's , which makes Lake Michigan-Huron the fourth largest freshwater lake by volume in the world (the first and second being Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is in southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryatia to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk....
 and Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika is a large lake in central Africa . It is estimated to be the List of lakes by volume in the world by volume, and the List of lakes by depth, after Lake Baikal in Siberia....
).

There were earlier variations of the lake during the last ice age
Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
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  • Lake Chicago
    Lake Chicago

    Lake Chicago was a prehistoric lake that is the ancestor of what is now known as Lake Michigan, one of North America's five Great Lakes....
     - southern tip of the current Lake Michigan
  • Lake Stanley - northern tip of the current Lake Michigan during the glacial retreat


See also

  • List of lakes by area
  • List of lakes by volume
    List of lakes by volume

    This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km?, ranked by volume. The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. Generally, the volume must be inferred from bathymetry by integral....


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