Glacial processes and the changing landscape of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum

• Main Author: Sinclair, Colin Mackenzie
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Carleton Digital Commons 2011
• Subjects: Laurentide Ice Sheet; Green Bay Lobe; Late Wisconsinan; drumlin; glacial lake; Canada; Glacial Lake; Green Bay; Greene; glacier*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.carleton.edu/comps/917

The UW-Madison Arboretum represents a landscape significantly altered by the Late Wisconsinan Glaciation (~25,000-10,000 BP). Soil and bedrock cores from wells along with observed glacial features were examined to determine the pre-glacial landscape of the arboretum and the effects that multiple gla...