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Caption: Marker detail: 16,000 Years Ago
Additional Description: "Just a few years ago, geologically speaking, a glacier passed this way, and that's why North America has a unique 1,200 mile lake chain, containing about a third of the world's freshwater area."
—R.W. Kelley and W.R. Farrand, 1967

About 10,000 years ago, Mastodons and early hunters roamed the southern Great Lakes, but most of the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan was under water.
Submitted: August 9, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p534151
File Size: 0.472 Megabytes

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