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Lake Agassiz ( / ˈæɡəsi / AG-ə-see) was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined.
Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges & Lowlands, and Western Upland.
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Description. A beautiful 1832 S.D.U.K. map of Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes. Centered on Lake Superior, the map coves the modern day regions of southern Ontario, northern Michigan and northeastern Minnesota. Although the interiors remain poorly mapped, several rivers, islands and lakes are noted throughout.
Western Hemisphere. Describe the location of each lake and have stu-dents label the correct lake on the map. Then have students, drawing on knowledge from earlier grades and new research, draw and label other important physical features on their maps: 1. important mountain range(s) on each continent 2. highest mountain on each continent 3 ...
Sican tumi, or ceremonial knife, Peru, 850–1500 CE. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America is the extraction, purification and alloying of metals and metal crafting by Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European contact in the late 15th century. Indigenous Americans had been using native metals from ancient times, with recent finds of ...
Description. This is an 1832 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (S.D.U.K.) map of Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes. Centered on Lake Superior, the map depicts the modern-day regions of southern Ontario, northern Michigan and northeastern Minnesota. Although the interior remain poorly mapped, several rivers, islands ...
