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Cordilleran Ice Sheet
The
Cordilleran ice sheet
was a major
ice sheet
that periodically covered large parts of
North America
during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million years. This included the following areas:
Western Montana
The
Idaho Panhandle
Northern
Washington state
down to about
Olympia
and
Spokane
All of
British Columbia
The southwestern third or so of
Yukon Territory
All of the
Alaska Panhandle
South Central Alaska
The
Alaska Peninsula
Almost all of the
continental shelf
north of the
Strait of Juan de Fuca
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