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Describe the mountain and water bodies of north America​???

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WATER BODIES-

Many of the great bodies of water of North America lie in its higher latitudes, courtesy of the extensive glaciation cycles of the Pleistocene. Most famously, the Great Lakes occupy archaic drainages enlarged and deepened by glaciers, and now represent some of the largest bodies of freshwater on the planet. Vast numbers of lakes dot the Canadian Shield, an exposed portion of the ancient continental core of North America. Oxbow lakes on river floodplains represent old meanders abandoned when the channel cut off one of its own loops. “Dying” lakes – those filling in with vegetation through natural ecological succession – often form shallow-water marshes, while timbered swamps commonly develop along river backwaters and other poorly drained areas.

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