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Article: Rare glacial force created Big Cedar Lake
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- August 3, 2003
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Rare glacial force created Big Cedar Lake
Sunday, August 3, 2003
The long, narrow basin of Big Cedar Lake was shaped as the most
recent continental glacier slowly melted and retreated from this
region of Wisconsin about 12,000 years ago.
Nearly all of the state's 15,000 lakes are gifts of the retreating
glacier, said Paul Garrison, a lakes researcher with the state
Department of Natural Resources.
Among the most common of the glacial lakes in Wisconsin are the
kettles, or potholes, formed when blocks of ice broke off the edge of
the ice sheets. Those blocks were covered by sand, soil and gravel
flowing away from the melting glacier.
After the ice blocks melted, they left behind depressions ...