New England Parent Materials

• Pleistocene Epoch (Ice Age) - 1.8 MYBP to 8 KYBP.

• 4 Major advances.

• Last- Wisconsinan advance covered all of NE.

• Soil parent materials - glacial & post glacial

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The ice age was a time when periodically yearly snow fall exceeded snowmelt and glacial ice moved into the region from the north. Glacial ice over a mile thick in some areas covered all of the Northeast, reaching it’s terminus as little as 25,000 years ago.