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Alpine Ice in the Upper Skagit

Alpine Ice during the Pleistocene
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the maximum extent of alpine ice during the Pleistocene.

Before the Cordilleran Ice Sheet sent continental ice far south into Puget Sound, great quantities of alpine ice collected on peaks and in valleys of North Cascades during the height of the Pleistocene (Ice Age), over 13,000 years ago.

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(Modified from Waitt, 1977; and Heller, 1980)
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