have glaciers ever covered ohio?
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Ohio's land is largely the result of glaciers that pushed down and scoured the land from Canada during previous ice ages, with the last one ended about 10,000 years ago after covering 2/3s of Ohio for about 2 million years with a sheet of ice that was estimated to be about 1 mile thick.
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Glaciers are comprised of snow and ice, compressed into large masses. Glaciers form as snow remains in a single place long enough to transform into ice. Glaciers advance and recede, meaning they flow, like a very slow moving river.
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Continental glaciers are large ice sheets that cover relatively flat ground. These glaciers flow outward from where the greatest amounts of snow and ice accumulate. Alpine (valley) glaciers flow downhill. Ice accumulates near the top of a mountain and then travels down existing valleys (Figure below).
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Cold climates where glaciers are found exist both in Earth's polar regions and in high altitude locations at all latitudes. Continental glaciers, also called ice sheets, cover large amounts of land in the Earth's polar regions. ... Alpine glaciers are found in high mountain valleys worldwide.
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Retreating glaciers from the last ice age smoothed much of the taiga land mass. High plains cover most of the area with some mountain ranges dotted throughout. ... As glaciers receded, they also carved a plethora of lakes, rivers and streams into the vast open stretches that cover most of the taiga biome.
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Pigs Gone Wild Have Come to Ohio. Feral pigs like this one are present and spreading in Ohio. They can damage woods, streams, lawns and food crops. They also can spread diseases such as swine brucellosis and pseudorabies to livestock.
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Ohio wildlife officials want to keep it that way, allowing hunters to shoot them on sight all year round, and unfettered by bag limits or hunting hours. The coyote is the only wild animal that can be trapped without restrictions, or without having to get an Ohio trapping permit.
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Native to Asia, a scourge in the South, invasive kudzu has moved north into Ohio. An aggressive vine, it can grow up to 60 feet a year. ... Kudzu, the “plant that ate the South,” is now in Ohio.
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Ohio has been referred to as the "Mother of Presidents." Seven U.S. presidents were born in Ohio: Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding.
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The most snow recorded fell in Amarillo (9.1 inches) with a trace observed as far east as Miami. The only snowfall report from the Oklahoma Panhandle was from Kenton (4.8 inches). Accumulations in western Oklahoma Panhandle.
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Ohio, constituent state of the United States of America, on the northeastern edge of the Midwest region. Lake Erie lies on the north, Pennsylvania on the east, West Virginia and Kentucky on the southeast and south, Indiana on the west, and Michigan on the northwest.
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But the term encompasses a lot of land north and south of the Ohio and several states, too. “Loosely defined it includes a good portion of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, extreme southwestern Pennsylvania, extreme northwestern West Virginia, and down to the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,” Gelber says.
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Ohio has a strong manufacturing base, but it's also a leader in the production of soybeans, its largest crop, and corn. Greenhouse and nursery products comprise about 11% of Ohio's total agricultural receipts. Other field crops are wheat, hay, oats, and popcorn, much of it for livestock feed.
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Mount Cleveland, also known as Cleveland Volcano and Chuginadak, is one of the most active volcanoes in the central part of the Aleutian island arc. It is a stratovolcano that comprises the entire western half of Chuginadak Island.
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Ohio is not often thought of for its prairie dogs. ... Ohio is not often thought of for its prairie dogs. But, believe it or not, we have one, and it's a charmer. The little mammal is bedecked with a massive name: the thirteen-lined ground squirrel ( Spermophilus tridecemlineatus).
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Although there are a few WWD's on the Potomac a ton of snakeheads have been caught far from them even in cold waters. The rivers here in Ohio aren't much colder than what the Potomac gets. At least down in the southern part of the state anyhow.