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51Glacial Lake Minong — was a proglacial lake that formed in the Lake Superior basin during the Wisconsin glaciation around 10,000 B.P. (Before Present). This was the last glacial advance that entered Michigan and only covered part of the upper peninsula. Lake Minong… …
52Glacial Lake Ojibway — was a prehistoric lake in what is now Northern Ontario. Ojibway was the last of the great proglacial lakes of the last ice age. Comparable in size to Lake Agassiz (to which it was probably linked), and north of the Great Lakes, it was at its… …
53Glacial Lake Wisconsin — was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed from approximately 19,000 to 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, in the central part of present day Wisconsin in the United States.Glacial Lake Wisconsin was formed by meltwater flowing …
54Glacial Lake Iroquois — was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. The lake was essentially an enlargement of the present Lake Ontario that formed because the St. Lawrence River downstream from the lake… …
55glacial epoch — n. ICE AGE the Glacial Epoch the Pleistocene Epoch …
56glacial deposits — plural noun Rock material deposited by glaciers or glacier associated streams and lakes • • • Main Entry: ↑glacial …
57Glacial polish — is a characteristic of rock surfaces where glaciers have passed over bedrock, typically granite or other hard igneous or metamorphic rock. Moving ice will carry pebbles and sand grains removed from upper levels which in turn grind a smooth or… …
58glacial landform — ▪ geology Introduction any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated areas, such as Greenland, Antarctica, and many of the world s higher mountain ranges. In addition, large expansions of present… …
59Glacial lake outburst flood — A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) can occur when a lake contained by a glacier (called Jökulhlaup if it was a subglacial lake, marginal lake drainage if it was dammed between ice and the ground) or a terminal moraine dam fails. This can happen …
60Glacial history of Minnesota — 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 years, most of the Midwestern United States and much of Canada were covered at one time or… …
