Lake Estancia was a prehistoric body of water in the Estancia Valley, in the center of the U.S. state of New Mexico. Mostly fed by creek and groundwater from the Manzano Mountains, the lake had diverse fauna, including cutthroat trout. It appears to have formed when a river system broke up. It reached a maximum water level (highstand) presumably during the Illinoian glaciation and subsequently fluctuated between a desiccated basin and fuller stages. Wind-driven erosion has excavated depressions in the former lakebed that are in part filled with playas (dry lake beds). The lake was one of several pluvial lakes in southwestern North America that developed during the late Pleistocene. Their formation has been variously attributed to decreased temperatures during the ice age and increased precipitation; a shutdown of the thermohaline circulation and the Laurentide Ice Sheet altered atmospheric circulation patterns and increased precipitation in the region. The lake has yielded a good paleoclimatic record. This map shows the shoreline of Lake Estancia at three different periods: early Estancia (1,939 m / 6,362 ft above sea level), late Estancia (1,897 m / 6,224 ft), and "Lake Willard" (1,870 m / 6,135 ft). Present-day populated places, county boundaries and roads are overlaid on the map for identification.
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Great Work! I award you this barnstar for the great work you have so far done on Wikipedia! Ãlways Ãhëad (talk) 00:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Military history service award By order of the coordinators, for your good work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIEStalk 22:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Military history service award By order of the coordinators, for your great work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIEStalk 22:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Military history service award By order of the coordinators, for your excellent work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you this this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIEStalk 22:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons By order of the coordinators, for your oustanding work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you the Military history WikiProject WikiChevrons. --ROGER DAVIEStalk 22:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
The Good Friend Award Thank you for helping me with my first article. Thank you for your continued support. And Thank you for being a good friend.
The Working Man's Barnstar This barnstar is for your efforts in assessing more than 400 articles for Tag And assessment contest Pakistan. Keep up the good work and achive greater heights in the contest! Yasht101 08:24, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy For getting more than 700 assessments in the contest. Sorry for the delay, I wasn't active in any projects, but you deserve this and keep rocking! Yasht101 03:20, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Golden Wiki Award Thanks for your recent contributions! 66.87.0.140 (talk) 22:49, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar Congrates! You are the first editor to cross 1000 assessments mark! That was just superb work, I m a fan now. You truely deserve this. So this award for your tireless contributions in Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012 for getting more than 1K assessments... Yasht101 04:58, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
The Civility Barnstar For being one of the politest editors I've encountered at Wikipedia. —David Levy 23:55, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
An appreciation Barnstar An appreciation barnstar in recognition of your all past and for future work on Wikipedia. Justice007 (talk) 15:38, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The Golden Wiki You are presented the Golden Wiki Award for assessing the highest number of articles and securing first position in the WikiProject Pakistan Tag & Assess drive of 2012. Thanking you for your contributions, Mar4d (talk) 17:30, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Pakistan Barnstar of National Merit For seeing things exactly as I see them, not taking the rather severe criticism to heart. Like Mar4d, SPECTRE has filed a cloning report of you ready to clone your much needed quality service to Pakistan articles with 10,000 minimes, all capable of zapping up the POV and CAPITAL LETTERS with a stun gun. Thankyou for producing good content to Pakistan topics, may it spread rapidly.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 15:42, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar You seem to be attracting a lot of weirdos of late, and you deal with them well. Darkness Shines (talk) 17:51, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
The BLP Barnstar For all of your hard work in ensuring that poorly sourced and potentially harmful information is not added to BLP articles; your vigilance is very appreciated! Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 18:30, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
The Article Rescue Barnstar Thank you for adding references to Moor (film) and for the discussion to save it from deletion. UBS 14:01, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar For your hard work over the years, especially in Pakistan-related articles. Green Giant (talk) 22:55, 8 January 2014 (UTC)