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Sedimentology Of Pleistocene Outwash And Glaciolacustrine Deposits In East-Central Wisconsin, Carrie Czech
Sedimentology Of Pleistocene Outwash And Glaciolacustrine Deposits In East-Central Wisconsin, Carrie Czech
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The Green Bay Lobe was one of several lobes of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) to enter Wisconsin during the recent Wisconsinan glaciation. Kewaunee Formation deposits in the Tower Hill sand and gravel pit near the city of De Pere in east-central Wisconsin were previously interpreted to be the result of an ice-contact delta, prograding into former glacial Lake Oshkosh (Mickelson and Mode, 2007). Estimates of water depth in the lake had been poorly constrained as they had been estimated by the elevation of the outlet channels and a few scattered, poorly-preserved strandline deposits (Hooyer, 2007). Reexamination of these Kewaunee …