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gptkbp:instanceOf
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Glaciation
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gptkbp:affects
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flora and fauna of North America
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:Wisconsinan_Glaciation
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gptkbp:beganIn
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about 75,000 years ago
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gptkbp:cause
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megafaunal extinctions
human migration into the Americas
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gptkbp:covers
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gptkb:Canada
gptkb:northern_United_States
much of North America
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gptkbp:created
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gptkb:Cape_Cod
gptkb:Finger_Lakes
gptkb:Long_Island
gptkb:Martha's_Vineyard
gptkb:Nantucket
gptkb:Great_Lakes
Moraines
Drumlins
Kettle lakes
Outwash plains
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gptkbp:endDate
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about 11,000 years ago
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:Holocene_epoch
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Wisconsin Glaciation
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gptkbp:iceSheet
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gptkb:Laurentide_Ice_Sheet
gptkb:Greenland_Ice_Sheet
gptkb:Innuitian_Ice_Sheet
gptkb:Cordilleran_Ice_Sheet
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gptkbp:isMajorEventOf
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gptkb:Late_Pleistocene
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gptkbp:lasted
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about 64,000 years
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gptkbp:leftPosition
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glacial till
eskers
outwash plains
erratics
kames
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gptkbp:namedAfter
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gptkb:Wisconsin
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gptkbp:partOf
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gptkb:Pleistocene_epoch
gptkb:Quaternary_glaciation
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gptkbp:precededBy
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gptkb:Sangamonian_Stage
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gptkbp:range
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about 21,000 years ago
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gptkbp:significance
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affecting soil distribution
influencing human settlement patterns
influencing river systems
shaping modern North American landscape
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gptkbp:studiedBy
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Glaciologists
Geologists
Paleoclimatologists
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gptkbp:type
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gptkb:Last_Glacial_Maximum_in_North_America
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Fonthill_Kame-Delta_Complex
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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