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    The Wisconsin glaciation, also called the Wisconsin glacial episode, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking...
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    between 23,500 and 21,000 years ago. This glaciation was somewhat distinct from the main Wisconsin glaciation, as it was only loosely related to the giant...
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    Wisconsin glaciation (MIS 4-2, sometimes also 5d-5a) Caracoles (Río Frío) glaciation Río Llico (Colegual) glaciation Santa María (Casma) glaciation Valdivia...
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  • (GAGE), INQUA Commission on Glaciation, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. anonymous, 2000, Pre-Wisconsin Glaciation of Central North America. Work...
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    portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glaciation epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The last advance covered...
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    The Würm glaciation or Würm stage (German: Würm-Kaltzeit or Würm-Glazial, colloquially often also Würmeiszeit or Würmzeit; cf. ice age), usually referred...
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    was not covered by glaciers during the most recent ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation. Langlade County has a soil rarely found outside the county called...
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    geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic...
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    Ontario Platform (geology) Basement (geology) Volcanology of Canada Wisconsin glaciation Glacial history of Minnesota Geography of Canada The Atlas of Canada...
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    current ice age in North America are the Illinoian, Eemian, and Wisconsin glaciation. The use of the Nebraskan, Afton, Kansan, and Yarmouthian stages...
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    1982. Ice-free conditions on the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, at the height of late Wisconsin glaciation. Science 218(4573):675–6770 [3]...
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  • (GAGE), INQUA Commission on Glaciation, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. anonymous, 2000, Pre-Wisconsin Glaciation of Central North America, Work...
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  • encompasses the entirety of the present Holocene interglacial, but the Wisconsin glaciation encompasses MIS 2, 3, and 4. Glacials and interglacials refer to...
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    Würm glaciation, in Great Britain the Devensian glaciation, in Ireland the Midlandian glaciation and in North America, the Wisconsin glaciation. The Fennoscandian...
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    plains formed by the Wisconsin glaciation cover much of the Midwest, including North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,...
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    dominant at Mount Takahe, with a maximum around the time when the Wisconsin glaciation ended. It is possible that between 18,000 and 15,000 years ago, either...
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    11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union...
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    Driftless Area (category Geology of Wisconsin)
    Glacial Lake Wisconsin, Glacial Lake Agassiz, Glacial Lake Grantsburg, and Glacial Lake Duluth. The last phases of the Wisconsin Glaciation involved several...
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    estimated to have been formed at the end of the Last Glacial Period (the Wisconsin glaciation ended 10,000 to 12,000 years ago), when the Laurentide Ice Sheet...
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    land bridge into Alaska and the Yukon where it was blocked by the Wisconsin glaciation. Therefore, the flora and fauna of Beringia were more related to...
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    commonly known as the Ottawa Valley. Lake Hitchcock Lake Albany Wisconsin glaciation Saint Lawrence Rift System L.J. Chapman and D.F. Putnam. 1951. The...
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    Niagara Falls was formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved...
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    town is located in the Southeastern Wisconsin glacial till plains that were created by the Wisconsin glaciation during the most recent ice age. The soil...
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    continental ice sheet formed during the period now known as the Wisconsin glaciation, and covered much of central North America between 30,000 and 10...
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    Patrician ice, the stage was set for the final phase of the Wisconsin Episode glaciation in Minnesota. The last major advance of the continental glacier...
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  • more glacial events. Mickelson, D. M. (2005) "Status of the Wisconsin and Illinoian Glaciations in their type area" Resúmenes del XVI Geológico Argentino...
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    town is located in the Southeastern Wisconsin glacial till plains that were created by the Wisconsin glaciation during the most recent ice age. The area...
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    escaped glaciation; speleothem calcite deposition continued in the region despite being retarded, indicating the absence of permafrost and glaciation. On...
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  • (GAGE), INQUA Commission on Glaciation, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. anonymous, 2000, Pre-Wisconsin Glaciation of Central North America. Work...
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    were secondary factors that prevented the development of continental glaciation in Asia. All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were...
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