North America
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
What are the names of two glaciers that covered much of North America during the Pleistocene?
What are the names two glaciers that covered much of North America during the Pleistocene? And which of them was the largest glacier?
I hard to find these names. I remember a glacier and the Cordillera Geology Laurentide ice, but (the two are in retreat when he was in graduate school). The Laurentide ice sheet (if that was his name) was much broader, covering much of North America, to the Ohio River (through it, in some cases). The blade of the Cordillera (Western North America) was amplified numberous mountain or alpine glaciers.
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