It is unique among large, high-latitude lakes, as its sediments have not been scoured by overriding continental ice sheets.
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This is because the sediment formed from the eroding mountains reduces the climatologists to the development of continental ice sheets.
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When less sunlight falls there, less snow melts in summer and over time is compressed to form growing continental ice sheets.
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The soils are deep and fertile, though somewhat rolling and rocky, as they were left by the last continental ice sheet.
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Deposits left by the continental ice sheets advancing from these three centers reflect the characteristics of the rocks over which they passed.
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Ledyard is among the areas of the United States that was covered by a continental ice sheet during the last Ice Age.
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Continental ice sheets overrode the Missouri Couteau Upland and advanced to an elevation of about 2900 feet in the Wood Mountain Upland.
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Lava flows from Clinker Peak during the early Holocene that ponded against the retreating continental ice sheet and formed The Barrier, containing Garibaldi Lake.
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The northern hemisphere Ice age occurred in Pleistocene time, when a continental ice sheet reached as far south as Kansas during the Wisconsin glaciation.
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When the continental ice sheets melt, they left behind an assortment of rock called glacial drift that covers much of the Superior Upland landscape.
