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Some research suggests that each episode was preceded by ice discharge in the Pacific Ocean from the smaller Cordilleran Ice Sheet.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

The other, known as the Ancestral Native Americans, gave rise to First Peoples south of the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2021

Porter, S. C. & Swanson, T. W. Radiocarbon age constraints on rates of advance and retreat of the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the last glaciation.

From Nature • Feb. 4, 2018

The areas of Figure 21.3 that are left uncoloured — the Appalachian, Innuitian, and Cordilleran fold belts — are geological regions that have been added to North America since 500 Ma.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Its major axis," he went on, his voice sinking almost to a caress, "is formed by the Rocky Mountains, which are practically a prolongation of the Cordilleran Range.

From Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Leacock, Stephen