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Soils of the Lake Michigan Coastal Zone

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Soils of the Laurentian Great Lakes, USA and Canada

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Lake Michigan is the third-largest Great Lake by area and the second-largest by volume. It is the only Great Lake with its axis oriented roughly north-to-south. Lake Michigan is joins Lake Huron via the Straits of Mackinac, leading some to consider the two lakes as one large lake, with an elevation of 176 m.

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  1. Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    James G. Bockheim

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Bockheim, J.G. (2021). Soils of the Lake Michigan Coastal Zone. In: Soils of the Laurentian Great Lakes, USA and Canada. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52425-8_7

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