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    The glacial history of Minnesota is most defined since the onset of the last glacial period, which ended some 10,000 years ago. Within the last million...
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    Pleistocene (redirect from Glacial epoch)
    either definition of the period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic...
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    of the Black Sea. At times the lake drained south through the Traverse Gap into Glacial River Warren (parent to the Minnesota River, a tributary of the...
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    Ice age (redirect from Glacial Epoch)
    glaciation. Individual pulses of cold climate within an ice age are termed glacial periods (glacials, glaciations, glacial stages, stadials, stades, or...
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    The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice...
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  • 1130/B25325.1 Glacial history of Minnesota Ice age Illinoian Stage Last Glacial Maximum Pre-Illinoian Stage Sea level rise Timeline of glaciation Yarmouthian...
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    portal French language in Minnesota Geology of Minnesota Glacial history of Minnesota Maritime Heritage Minnesota Music of Minnesota Radzilowski 2006, p. 15...
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    last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression. Post-glacial rebound and isostatic depression are phases of glacial isostasy (glacial isostatic...
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    remnants on the western side of the Andes. Glacial history of Minnesota Glacial lake outburst flood Glacial period Penultimate Glacial Period Pleistocene, which...
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    The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsin glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking...
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  • Thumbnail for Proglacial lakes of Minnesota
    lakes of Minnesota were lakes created in what is now the U.S. state of Minnesota in central North America in the waning years of the last glacial period...
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    scale – System that relates geologic strata to time Glacial history of Minnesota Glacial period – Interval of time within an ice age that is marked by colder...
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    deposited deep layers of glacial till over most of the state, and created the beds and valleys of modern lakes and rivers. Minnesota's geologic resources...
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    Laurentide Ice Sheet (category Geological history of the Great Lakes)
    period, but it was not a part of the Baffin ice flow, but an autonomous flow. Canadian Shield Glacial history of Minnesota Driftless Area Lake Agassiz Wisconsin...
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    Geology of Ontario Platform (geology) Basement (geology) Volcanology of Canada Wisconsin glaciation Glacial history of Minnesota The Atlas of Canada (12...
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    The Penultimate Glacial Period (PGP) is the glacial period that occurred before the Last Glacial Period. The penultimate glacial period is officially unnamed...
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    cover much of the Midwest, including North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and northern Ohio (see Glacial till plains...
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  • Thumbnail for Cordilleran ice sheet
    Cordilleran ice sheet (category Glaciology of Canada)
    parts of North America during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million years. The ice extent covered almost all of the continental shelf north of the...
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    is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age...
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  • appreciation of this work, the glacial river that was the outlet of Lake Agassiz was named River Warren. Geology of Minnesota Glacial history of Minnesota Laurentide...
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    A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from...
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    be deposits of fluvio-glacial material. The best-known example of such an eiscir is the Eiscir Riada, which runs nearly the whole width of Ireland from...
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    the result of blocks of ice calving from the front of a receding glacier and becoming partially to wholly buried by glacial outwash. Glacial outwash is...
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    Hardangerfjord (category Articles using infobox body of water without alt)
    not only made through glacial erosion but by the high pressure melting water which pushed its way beneath the ice. The history of the fjord goes far beyond...
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    000 years ago at the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period and ended about 115,000 years ago at the beginning of the Last Glacial Period. It corresponds...
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    A kame, or knob, is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating...
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    Ice Age Trail (category National Scenic Trails of the United States)
    Little Ice Age) Little ice age Post-glacial rebound Timeline of glaciation Canadian Shield Glacial history of Minnesota Lake Agassiz Wisconsin glaciation...
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    of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the...
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  • Younger Dryas (category Last Glacial Maximum)
    event which marked a return to glacial conditions, temporarily reversing the climatic warming of the preceding Late Glacial Interstadial (also known as the...
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    Greater Minnesota", Minnesota Pollution Control Agency November 8, 2021 Richard W. Ojakangas, Roadside Geology of Minnesota, 2009, glacial history of Minnesota...
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