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Northern hemisphere glaciation during the last ice ages. The set up of 3 to 4 km thick ice sheets caused a sea level lowering of about 120 m. Also the Alps and the Himalya were covered by glaciers. The limit of winter sea ice coverage was much more to the south. |
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own work; redrawn, supplemented and modified from a grafic of the United States Geological Survey |
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2000-04-07 |
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Hannes Grobe 23:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC), Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany |
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in French : Image:Northern_icesheet-fr.png
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Geology of Minnesota
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Glacial history of Minnesota