The Cordilleran ice sheet was a major ice sheet that periodically covered large parts of North America during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million...
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merged with the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. The ice coverage extended approximately as far south as 38 degrees latitude mid-continent. This ice sheet was the primary...
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Wisconsin glaciation (redirect from Wisconsin Ice Sheet)
period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking more than 20,000 years ago. This advance included the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which nucleated in the...
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Last Glacial Period (redirect from Recent ice age)
the Cordilleran ice sheet and as ice fields and ice caps in the Sierra Nevada in northern California. In northern Eurasia, the Scandinavian ice sheet once...
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Vashon Glaciation (category Ice ages)
present defined as January 1, 1950 for this scale). The Cordilleran Ice Sheet was an ice sheet that covered present-day southern Alaska and parts of western...
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Laurentide Ice Sheet Cordilleran ice sheet Keewatin ice sheet Labrador ice sheet Fulton, R. J. & Prest, V. K. (1987). Introduction: The Laurentide Ice Sheet and...
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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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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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Laurentide Ice Sheet Cordilleran ice sheet Keewatin ice sheet Baffin ice sheet Fulton, R. J. & Prest, V. K. (1987). Introduction: The Laurentide Ice Sheet and...
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Meltwater pulse 1A (section Antarctic Ice Sheet)
Ice sheet modelling work suggests that the abrupt onset of the Bølling-Allerød (B-A) may have triggered the separation of the Cordilleran ice sheet and...
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