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The poorly drained soils derived from glacio-lacustrine deposits are extensively farmed for grass seed and small grains.
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A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea level record: Influence of glacial melting rates on the Younger Dryas event and deep-ocean circulation.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009
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The Eurasian and Laurentide Ice Sheets were responsible for most of the glacio-eustatic decrease in sea level (about 120 m) during the LGM. The pattern of postglacial isostatic rebound suggests that the ice was thickest over Hudson Bay.
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Marshall Paraconformity: a mid-Oligocene record of inception of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and coeval glacio-eustatic lowstand?
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Channel water is shallow intermittently flowing water in abandoned eroded glacio-fluvial spillways, where the water source is from spring snowmelt or exceptionally high precipitation.
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The lower (Permian) unit consists of glacio-marine sequences including tillite, sandstone, siltstone, mudstone and limestone horizons.
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National Park Service, Science Publications Office, Atlanta, Georgia. 33 pp. [Comprises 500 references to work on glaciology, glacio-geomorphology, geology and oceanography, terrestrial ecosystems, history and anthropology, marine and aquatic ecosystems and resource management issues].
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Potential for natural and management-induced slope instability exists where water tables are perched in compacted tills and glacio-fluvial deposits.
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Cirques occur on most mountains, and glacio-fluvial deposits are found in Picton, Middle Huon and Upper Weld valleys.
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When minimum shifts in mean July temperatures during the Holocene were studied, the estimated glacio-isostatic land uplift and its regional differences were taken into account.
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