Description: A map from 1916 of North America showing the extent of the ice sheets in the glacial period, the direction of glacial movement, and the extent of the ice sheets and glaciers in 1916. The map shows the present ice sheet of Greenland, the glaciers of Baffin Island, Alaska and Pacific Northwest, the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada, and the Cordilleran, Keewatin, and Labrador ice sheets from the glacial period.
Place Names: A Complete Map of North America, Canada, Mexico, United States, Cuba, Bahama
ISO Topic Categories: boundaries,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters,
location,
oceans
Keywords: North American Ice Sheets, political, physical, kGlacial, physical features,
geological, major political subdivisions,
country borders, boundaries,
geoscientificInformation,
inlandWaters,
location,
oceans, Unknown, 1916
Source: Albert Perry Brigham & Charles T. McFarlane, Essentials of Geography (New York, NY: American Book Company, 1916) 20
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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