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Laurentide ice sheet |
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Laurentide Ice SheetPrincipal 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. 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Turns out, most are related to a population of hardy chipmunks that once lived next to a towering block of ice called the Laurentide ice sheet. 2002), when one of the largest glacial lakes of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS), Lake Ojibway, drained into the North Atlantic through Hudson Strait, releasing in one or two years about 1. A LAKE IS BORN Between 18,000 and 20,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered Canada east of the Rockies. |
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