Wisconsin Glacial Episode

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Wisconsin_Glacial_Episode
GPTKB entity
Statements (43)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Glacial period
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Wisconsinan_Glaciation
gptkb:Wisconsin_Glaciation
gptkbp:archaeologicalSite gptkb:Clovis_culture
gptkb:Folsom_culture
gptkbp:beganIn about 75,000 years ago
gptkbp:category gptkb:Pleistocene
Quaternary geology
Glaciology
gptkbp:climate cold
gptkbp:correspondsTo gptkb:Devensian_glaciation_(Britain)
gptkb:Weichselian_glaciation_(Europe)
gptkb:Würm_glaciation_(Alps)
gptkbp:endDate about 11,000 years ago
gptkbp:fauna bison
mammoths
mastodons
giant ground sloths
saber-toothed cats
early humans
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Holocene_epoch
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Wisconsin Glacial Episode
gptkbp:iceSheet gptkb:Laurentide_Ice_Sheet
gptkb:Greenland_Ice_Sheet
gptkb:Cordilleran_Ice_Sheet
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Wisconsin
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Quaternary_glaciation
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Sangamonian_Stage
gptkbp:range about 21,000 years ago
gptkbp:resultedIn formation of kettle lakes
formation of moraines
deposition of glacial till
formation of Great Lakes
gptkbp:servesArea gptkb:Canada
gptkb:North_America
gptkb:Northern_United_States
gptkbp:significance shaped modern landscapes of northern US and Canada
gptkbp:studiedBy archaeologists
geologists
paleoclimatologists
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Harbor_Hill_Moraine
gptkb:Wisconsinan_glaciation
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7