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unusual facts about Laurentide ice sheet



Cordilleran Ice Sheet

At its eastern end the Cordilleran ice sheet merged with the Laurentide ice sheet at the Continental Divide, forming an area of ice that contained one and a half times as much water as the Antarctic ice sheet does today.

People of the Wolf

Heron: A fiercely independent medicine-woman, she trains Runs In Light in harnessing his visions so he can lead them through the hole in the ice where the Laurentide ice sheet and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet were joined.


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Tyrrell Sea

Roughly 8,000 years BP, the Laurentide Ice Sheet thinned and split into two lobes, one centered over Quebec-Labrador, the other over Keewatin.