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The Darhad Basin in Northern Mongolia was occupied by a paleo-lake since the maximum of the Late Pleistocene glaciation. The lake formed as a result of ice damming of the Shishhid Gol valley, the only outflow from the basin. In addition to the traces of the ice dam, there are distinct signs of sedimentary damming of the Darhad. The last sedimentary dam is still not completely eroded, and the modern...