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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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