DEFINITION OF GREAT SLAVE LAKE, NUNAVUT

The Great Slave Lake, named

after the Dene Slavey Indians, covers 10,980 square miles

(28,44 km2) in Nunavut, formerly the Northwest Territories

of Canada. The lake is 300 miles (483 km) long and

between 12 and 68 miles (19–110 km) wide, and it is the

deepest lake in North America at 2,015 feet (614.6 m) and

the sixth deepest in the world. The first European to discover

the lake was Samuel Hearne in 1771, and he named it

Athapuscow Lake. The Mackenzie River, the longest in

Canada—2,651 miles (4,241 km)—has its source in the

western end of the Great Slave Lake. The lake is located

along several geological boundaries, some marked by faults,

explaining its great depths. The south and western ends of

the lake are covering Devonian clastic rocks derived from

the mountains to the west, whereas the northern and eastern

ends of the lake cover Precambrian basement. The east

arm of the lake follows a Proterozoic rift basin, where spectacular

stromatolitic reefs are preserved, whereas the northern

side of the lake exposes Archean rocks of the Slave

province. The McDonald fault scarp strikes northeast along

the east arm of the lake.

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