The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern...
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Wisconsin glaciation (redirect from Wisconsin Ice Sheet)
Innuitian ice sheet, which extended across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; the Greenland ice sheet; and the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered...
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(glacial periods) there were other ice sheets. During the Last Glacial Period at Last Glacial Maximum, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered much of North America...
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eastern end the Cordilleran ice sheet merged with the Laurentide Ice Sheet at the Continental Divide, forming an area of ice that contained one and a half...
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phenomenon in which large groups of icebergs break off from the Laurentide Ice Sheet and traverse the Hudson Strait into the North Atlantic. First described...
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Last Glacial Maximum (category Ice ages)
"Refining the Laurentide Ice Sheet at Marine Isotope Stage 3: A data-based approach combining glacial isostatic simulations with a dynamic ice model". Quaternary...
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Meltwater pulse 1A (section Laurentide Ice Sheet)
level rise came from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, or the Fennoscandian and Barents Sea Ice Sheets. The technique of sea-level fingerprinting...
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during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the lake's area...
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events that occurred in the Holocene epoch. During this period, the Laurentide Ice Sheet advanced and retreated during the Pleistocene epoch. Till plains...
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warmer climatic influence of the Gulf of Mexico. In the north, the Laurentide Ice Sheet re-advanced during the Younger Dryas, depositing a moraine from west...
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present-day Patagonia. Unlike the Laurentide Ice Sheet or the ice sheets of Northern Europe, the Patagonian Ice Sheet did not cause major extinctions or...
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the seam with the Greenland ice sheet. Laurentide Ice Sheet Cordilleran ice sheet Labrador ice sheet Baffin ice sheet Fulton, R. J. & Prest, V. K. (1987)...
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Last Glacial Period (redirect from Recent ice age)
covered by ice, as was the northern part of the United States, both blanketed by the huge Laurentide Ice Sheet. Alaska remained mostly ice free due to...
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Quaternary glaciation (redirect from Quaternary ice age)
Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have survived, while other sheets formed during glacial periods, such as the Laurentide Ice Sheet, have completely melted...
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Beringia and the covering of most of northern North America by the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Charles Lyell introduced the term "Pleistocene" in 1839 to describe...
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The Baffin ice sheet was the most northerly portion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, centered in the Foxe Basin between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula...
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Deglaciation (category Ice sheets)
the Laurentide Ice Sheet spread over large areas of northern North America, with over 5,000,000 square miles of coverage. The Laurentide ice sheet was...
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glaciation. The largest drumlin fields in the world formed beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet and are found in Canada — Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, northern...
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glacial erosion. The Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered Canada and what is currently the New England landscape, was a massive sheet of ice and the primary...
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Beringia (category Ice ages)
However, from c. 24,000 – c. 13,000 YBP the Laurentide Ice Sheet fused with the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which blocked gene flow between Beringia (and...
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Laurentide Ice Sheet Cordilleran ice sheet Keewatin ice sheet Baffin ice sheet Fulton, R. J. & Prest, V. K. (1987). Introduction: The Laurentide Ice Sheet...
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Proglacial lake (redirect from Ice-Dammed Lakes)
glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice. At the end of the last ice age about...
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presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which...
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Peopling of the Americas (redirect from Ice-free corridor)
now-extinct Pleistocene megafauna along ice-free corridors that stretched between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets. Another route proposed is that,...
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The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick, and over 3 km...
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glaciers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet moved southward from the Hudson Bay area. During the glacial maximums, subglacial meltwater and glacial ice widened, deepened...
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the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets pushed these lakes and rivers southward. Between 15,000 BCE and 11,000 BCE, the Laurentide Ice Sheet blocked...
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interglacial periods began which covered the area in ice. During the most recent episode, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of northern North America between...
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been mammoth steppe or under the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in Eurasia and under the Laurentide Ice Sheet in North America during the Late Pleistocene. Although...
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Glacial history of Minnesota (redirect from Ice age in minnesota)
in the world. About 18,000 years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet began to melt and retreat. As the Mankato ice shrank meltwaters became ponded in several...
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