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  2. Wisconsin glaciation - Wikipedia

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    The Wisconsin glaciation extended from about 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, between the Sangamonian Stage and the current interglacial, the Holocene. The maximum ice extent occurred about 25,000–21,000 years ago during the last glacial maximum, also known as the Late Wisconsin in North America. The Last Glacial Period caused a much lower global ...

  3. Laurentide ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    The Laurentide ice sheet (LIS) was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glaciation epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present.

  4. Lake Mendota - Wikipedia

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    Lake Mendota originated after the Wisconsin glaciation, which occurred approximately 15,000 years ago.Glacial ice, which had covered the Madison lakes (Lakes Mendota, Monona, Kegonsa, and Waubesa) [5] at a thickness of over 300 meters, began to retreat northwest about 14,000 years ago, damming a glacial lake near the City of Middleton that now serves as the source of water for Pheasant Branch ...

  5. Ice Age National Scientific Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Ice Age National Scientific Reserve is an affiliated area of the National Park System of the United States comprising nine sites in Wisconsin that preserve geological evidence of glaciation. To protect the scientific and scenic value of the landforms, the U.S. Congress authorized the creation of a cooperative reserve in 1964.

  6. Sturgeon spearing opening day is almost here in Wisconsin ...

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    Sturgeon spearing opening day is almost here in Wisconsin. Here's the latest on ice and weather. Gannett. Daphne Lemke, Fond du Lac Reporter. February 8, 2024 at 6:10 AM.

  7. Ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    Greenland ice sheet as seen from space. An ice sheet is a body of ice which covers a land area of continental size - meaning that it exceeds 50,000 km 2. [4] The currently existing two ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have a much greater area than this minimum definition, measuring at 1.7 million km 2 and 14 million km 2, respectively.

  8. Overnight Winds Push Lake Michigan Ice Onto Wisconsin ... - AOL

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    “Gusty” winds pushed sheets of ice atop Lake Michigan onto shorelines on Wednesday, February 16, ahead of a wintry mix of precipitation that was forecast to hit the Green Bay, Wisconsin, area ...

  9. Dangerous ice storm causes hundreds of crashes across Plains ...

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    How Much Ice Is Needed To Knock Out Power, Damage Trees? Forecasters said there is the potential for 0.1-0.2 inches of ice accretion north of Interstate 80 in Iowa outside the Ice Storm Warning areas.