Laurentide ice sheet (redirected from Laurentide Glaciation)

Laurentide Ice Sheet

Principal glacial cover of North America during the Pleistocene epoch (1.8 million–10,000 years ago). At its maximum extent it spread as far south as latitude 37° N and covered an area of more than 5 million sq mi (13 million sq km). In some areas its thickness reached 8,000–10,000 ft (2,400–3,000 m) or more.

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Laurentide ice sheet [lȯr·ən‚tīd ′īs ‚shēt]

(hydrology)

A major recurring glacier that at its maximum completely covered North America east of the Rockies from the Arctic Ocean to a line passing through the vicinity of New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, and the Dakotas.