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  • geologic time
    Holocene Epoch
    / Continental shelf and coastal regions

    …preserved is known as the marine limit. The nearer the former centre of the ice sheet, the higher the marine limit. In northern Scandinavia, Ontario and northwestern Quebec, around Hudson Bay, and in Baffin Island, it reaches more than a 300-metre elevation. In central Maine and Spitsbergen it may exceed…

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    …preserved is known as the marine limit. The nearer the former centre of the ice sheet, the higher the marine limit. In northern Scandinavia, Ontario and northwestern Quebec, around Hudson Bay, and in Baffin Island, it reaches more than a 300-metre elevation. In central Maine and Spitsbergen it may exceed…

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