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Devensian Glacial Stage
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Devensian Glacial Stage

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  • Wisconsin glaciation
    Pleistocene Epoch
    / Glacial records

    
last glaciation, the Weichselian and Devensian, correlate with oxygen-18 stages 5d–a, 4, 3, and 2. As in central North America, tills and other deposits are well known only from the last part of this interval. The deglacial history generally is similar, except for a widespread but short interval of renewed


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last glaciation, the Weichselian and Devensian, correlate with oxygen-18 stages 5d–a, 4, 3, and 2. As in central North America, tills and other deposits are well known only from the last part of this interval. The deglacial history generally is similar, except for a widespread but short interval of renewed


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