Ice Age
Glaciers
Ice Age glaciers covered a sizable portion of North America. They played a major role in shaping the modern landscape of Wisconsin, advancing and retreating numerous times over the centuries. They formed hills and ridges, scraped plains, created lakes, and shifted the course of rivers.
The last major glacial advance in North America is known as the Wisconsin Glaciation. The glaciers featured "lobes" of compacted snow and ice that covered much of Wisconsin. In some places, the glaciers were many hundreds of feet thick and their weight literally pushed the land downward!
Here is a link to a great activity to understand the flow dynamics of glaciers (how they move).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pztUPIzXglY
Megafauna (huge animals)
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Many of Wisconsin's Ice Age animal species grew to incredible size, including the short-faced bear pictured.
Note the size of the man!
A pretty interesting article about 3-D modeling of Ice Age creatures. There is a nice illustration of dozens of Pleistocene (Ice Age) species in the middle of it.
www.storybench.org/bringing-ice-age-life/
Check out this mammoth discovered in Michigan and the size of those tusks!
www.newsweek.com/ancient-mammoth-bones-marked-human-butchering-found-michigan-735616
This site has an excellent animation of the advance and retreat of glaciers in Wisconsin.
https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/wisconsin-geology/ice-age/
Many of Wisconsin's Ice Age animal species grew to incredible size, including the short-faced bear pictured.
Note the size of the man!
A pretty interesting article about 3-D modeling of Ice Age creatures. There is a nice illustration of dozens of Pleistocene (Ice Age) species in the middle of it.
www.storybench.org/bringing-ice-age-life/
Check out this mammoth discovered in Michigan and the size of those tusks!
www.newsweek.com/ancient-mammoth-bones-marked-human-butchering-found-michigan-735616
This site has an excellent animation of the advance and retreat of glaciers in Wisconsin.
https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/wisconsin-geology/ice-age/
