AGRY 565

Pleistocene Age
- began~2.5 million years ago
- ended~8,000 years ago
- at least 3 periods of Ice advance
Laurentide Ice Sheet

The ice sheet that descended over north America during the Pleistocene age
Knoll
- a convex hill (slope > 3%)
- Plain Landform component
Swell

a convex hill (slope < 3%).
Pothole
- any pot-shaped pit or hole not over limestone
- deeper than a closed depression.
Kettle

Deeper than a pothole
Sinkhole
- – a depression, commonly funnel-shaped, over limestone
- – it is on a karst plain and its drainage is subterranean
Plain Components

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AGRY 565

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Quiz two

Updated

2013-09-16T19:45:14Z

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