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What is the difference between "just plain ol' ice on the ground" and GLACIAL ICE?
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a glacier is a mass of ice that MOVES
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What is the difference between "just plain ol' ice on the ground" and GLACIAL ICE?
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a glacier is a mass of ice that MOVES
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What specific kind of glacier covered more than half of north america, including all of michigan during the great ice age?
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what is glacial erratic?
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a huge boulder moved miles away from it's place of origin by glacial ice
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what is meant by the load of a glacier?
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what are glacial striations and how are they formed?
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what is glacial till? what state should be known as the glacial till state?
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Till is completely unsorted!! what does that mean?!
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What is the closest thing the lower peninsula has to a mountain range?
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what is a moraine and how is one formed?
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what is the specific name of the moraine that is the nearest to schoolcraft college?
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What three specific ice lobes buried all of lower michigan during the ice age?
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what is outwash.
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what is a kettlehole and how is one formed?
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what is a kame and how is one formed
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what is an esker and how is one formed
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what is a proglacial lake
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what were the former names of Lake Erie and Lake Michigan
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into which specific body of water did the great lakes drain when they first formed and what route did they use to get there?
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how do geologists knowexacly where former lakes used to be
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what kind of geologic feature does schoolcrafts administration building sit on?
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which specific one of the great lakes used to cover schoolcrafts campus
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compared to today where ocean levels higher or lower during the ice age
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how much of michigan was covered in glacier, during the ice age?
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100%
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