The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsin glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex. This advance included the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which nucleated in the northern North American Cordillera; the Innuitian ice sheet, which extended across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; the Greenland ice sheet; and the massive Laurentide …

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This glaciation radically altered the geography north of the Ohio River.At the height of the Wisconsin Episode glaciation, the ice sheet covered most of Canada, the Upper Midwest, and New England, as well as parts of Idaho, Montana, and Washington.On Kelleys Island in Lake Erie, northern New Jersey and in New York City 's Central Park, [2] the grooves left in rock by these …

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O Último período glacial, também referido como Idade do Gelo, Glaciação Wisconsin, Glaciação Würms, Würmiano ou Laurenciano [1], é a designação dada ao último episódio de glaciação da Terra registado durante a presente idade geológica.Teve lugar durante a última parte do Pleistoceno, de aproximadamente 110 000 a 10 000 antes do presente [2] e é a mais …