Saugeen Kame Terraces Explained

The Saugeen Kame Terraces is a 431-hectare provincially significant Earth Science Area of Natural and Scientific Interest in Ontario, Canada.[1] It is in Grey County (in what was once Egremont Township), bounding the eastern and southern shores of Wilder Lake, a kettle lake, and is part of the larger Singhampton Kame Moraine formation. It is a kame formation that is the result of glacial retreat sediment deposition about 14,000 years ago.

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  1. Web site: Natural Areas Report: SAUGEEN KAME TERRACES. https://archive.today/20070802143042/http://nhic.mnr.gov.on.ca/areas/areas_report.cfm?areaid=8061. dead. 2007-08-02. Ministry of Natural Resources Natural Heritage Information Centre. 2008-02-12.