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Till plain

Till plains are an extensive flat plain of glacial till that forms when a sheet of ice becomes detached from the main body of a glacier and melts in place, depositing the sediments it carried. Ground moraines are formed with melts out of the glacier in irregular heaps, forming rolling hills. Till plains are common in areas such as the Midwestern United States, due to multiple glaciation events that occurred in the Holocene epoch. During this period, the Laurentide Ice Sheet advanced and retreated during the Pleistocene epoch.[1] Till plains formed by the Wisconsin glaciation cover much of the Midwest, including North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and northern Ohio (see Glacial till plains (Ohio)).[2]

Image of ground moraine in New York. Note flat/rolling topography.
  1. ^ "The Importance of Glaciers to Wisconsin". Schlitz Audubon. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  2. ^ "The retreat chronology of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last 10,000 years and implications for deglacial sea-level rise". Vignette Collection. Retrieved 2020-12-18.

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