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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:lake
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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:category
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gptkb:Glaciations_of_North_America
Pleistocene events
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gptkbp:climate
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created land bridges
lowered global sea levels
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gptkbp:correspondsTo
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gptkb:Devensian_glaciation_in_Britain
gptkb:Würm_glaciation_in_the_Alps
gptkb:Weichselian_glaciation_in_Europe
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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:effect
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created drumlins
created erratics
created eskers
deposited glacial till
formed proglacial lakes
shaped modern landscapes of northern US and Canada
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gptkbp:endDate
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about 11,000 years ago
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gptkbp:fauna
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mammoths
mastodons
giant ground sloths
saber-toothed cats
early humans in North America
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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:Cordilleran_Ice_Sheet
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gptkbp:landBridge
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gptkb:Bering_Land_Bridge
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gptkbp:namedAfter
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gptkb:Wisconsin,_USA
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gptkbp:partOf
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gptkb:Quaternary_glaciation
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gptkbp:precededBy
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gptkb:Sangamonian_Stage
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gptkbp:proglacialLake
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gptkb:Lake_Agassiz
gptkb:Lake_Chicago
gptkb:Lake_Iroquois
gptkb:Lake_Missoula
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gptkbp:range
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about 21,000 years ago
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gptkbp:responsibleFor
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formation of kettle lakes
formation of moraines
formation of outwash plains
formation of the Great Lakes
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gptkbp:studiedBy
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geologists
glaciologists
paleoclimatologists
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Tunbridge_soil
gptkb:Oak_Ridges_Moraine
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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5
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