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Glaciers 2015

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Wisconsin GlacierThe giant ice sheet that covered most of North America during the ice age.
Ronkonkoma MoraineThe moraine left by an advance 60,000 years ago
Harbor Hill AdvanceThe movement of a glacier that occurred 17, 000 years ago
MoraineA hill made of glacier debris left whrere the front of the glacier stopped.
Outwash PlainAn area made of sand or smaller particles of sediment that is washed off. A flat sandy area found downhill of a moraine formed from sand being washed away.
AquiferAn area of permeable sediment that contains water.
Kettle LakeFormed by ice melting underground leaving a depression that is filled by coming in contact with an aquifer
HarborsFormed by large ice fingers digging into the moraine
bluffsteep hills formed by eroded headlands being washed away by the sea
Glacial debristhe material left behind by eroding glaciers
sea levelthe elevation of the ocean's surface
erosiontaking away of sediment
depositionthe placing of sediment
clayan impermeable sediment
sedimentsthe materials that make up the earth's surface
Terryville Outwash PlainFound on the south of Harbor Hills Moraine
South Shore Outwash PlainFound south of the Ronkonkoma Moraine


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