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Block diagram showing generalized rock layers underground with a bare brown sandy/silty surface with a river and ice sheet depicting a generalization of an ice age glacial land surface. Surrounding the block diagram are text boxes explaining parts of the diagram.
Central Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition (1999): USGS Circular 1190 glacial block diagram showing generalized ice age conditions
Central Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition (1999): USGS Circular 1190 glacial block diagram showing generalized ice age conditions
Central Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition (1999): USGS Circular 1190 glacial block diagram showing generalized ice age conditions

During invasions of the ice sheets (about 10,000 to 1,800,000 years ago), the glacial landscape of the Central Great Lakes region was a foreboding and barren place. In this scene, melting along the front edge of the continental ice sheet feeds water and sediment into a river and glacial lake.

1974 Geologic Map of the United States.
1974 Geologic Map of the United States.
1974 Geologic Map of the United States.
1974 Geologic Map of the United States.

King and Beikman's 1974 Geologic Map of the United States (1974 Geologic Map of the United States)

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