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- Wisconsin_glaciation abstract "The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsinan glaciation, was the most recent major advance of the North American ice sheet complex. This advance included the Cordilleran ice sheet, which nucleated in the northern North American Cordillera, the Innuitian ice sheet, which extended across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Greenland ice sheet, and the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered the high latitudes of central and eastern North America. This advance was synchronous with global glaciation during the last glacial period, including the North American alpine glacier advance, known as the Pinedale glaciation. The Wisconsin glaciation extended from approximately 85,000 to 11,000 years ago, between the Sangamon interglacial (known globally as the Eemian stage) and the current interglacial, the Holocene. The maximum ice extent occurred approximately 25,000–21,000 years ago during the last glacial maximum, also known as the Late Wisconsin in North America.This glaciation radically altered the geography of North America north of the Ohio River. At the height of the Wisconsin Episode glaciation, the ice sheet covered most of Canada, the Upper Midwest, and New England, as well as parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington. On Kelleys Island in Lake Erie or in New York's Central Park the grooves left by these glaciers can be easily observed. In southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta, a suture zone between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets formed the Cypress Hills, the northernmost point in North America that remained south of the continental ice sheets. During much of the glaciation, sea level was low enough to permit land animals, including humans to occupy Beringia (the Bering Land Bridge) and move between North America and Siberia. As the glaciers retreated, glacial lakes were breached in great floods of water such as the Kankakee Torrent which reshaped the landscape south of modern Chicago as far as the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.".
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- Wisconsin_glaciation hasPhotoCollection Wisconsin_glaciation.
- Wisconsin_glaciation subject Category:Geology.
- Wisconsin_glaciation subject Category:Glaciology_of_Canada.
- Wisconsin_glaciation subject Category:Glaciology_of_the_United_States.
- Wisconsin_glaciation comment "The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsinan glaciation, was the most recent major advance of the North American ice sheet complex. This advance included the Cordilleran ice sheet, which nucleated in the northern North American Cordillera, the Innuitian ice sheet, which extended across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Greenland ice sheet, and the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered the high latitudes of central and eastern North America.".
- Wisconsin_glaciation label "Glaciation du Wisconsin".
- Wisconsin_glaciation label "Glaciação do Wisconsin".
- Wisconsin_glaciation label "Wisconsin glaciation".
- Wisconsin_glaciation label "Висконсинское оледенение".
- Wisconsin_glaciation label "حقبة الغمر الجليدي ويسكونسن".
- Wisconsin_glaciation sameAs Glaciation_du_Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin_glaciation sameAs Glaciação_do_Wisconsin.
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- Wisconsin_glaciation sameAs Q2094246.
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