[2] From the Saginaw Basin the lake did not discharge water through Grand River but eastward along the edge of the ice sheet to Syracuse, New York, thence into the Mohawk valley.
At the type locality in Wayne County, Michigan, it is a sandy ridge, but farther north, and to the east through Ohio it is gravel.
[2] The results of the isostatic rebound area similar to the Lake Warren beaches.
Because subdued pebble beach ridges, the Wayne Lake may have persisted until the ice margin had retreated north to near the Niagara Falls Moraine.
[5] From the Ohio-Michigan line on the Black River to Port Huron the beach is very identifiable.