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REPORT:
The Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Washington, Idaho, and Montana

-- Richard B. Waitt, Jr., and Robert M. Thorson, 1983,
The Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Washington, Idaho, and Montana: IN: H.E. Wright, Jr., (ed.), 1983, Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States, Volume 1: The Late Pleistocene (Stephen C. Porter (ed.)): University of Minnesota Press, 407p., Chapter 3, p.53-70.

Introduction
- Landforms, Weathering, and Soils
- Correlation, Chronology, and Nomenclature
- Pre-Fraser Glaciations
Fraser Glaciation: Ice-Sheet Advance and Maximum Stand
- Puget and Juan de Fuca Lobes
  - Chronology
  - Glacial Dynamics and Deposits
- North-Central Washington
  - Northeastern North Cascade Range
  - Ice Limits North of Columbia River
  - Okanogan Lobe on the Waterville Plateau
  - Glacial Lake Columbia and the Grand Coulee
- Northeastern Washington
  - Columbia River and Colville River Lobes
  - Pend Oreille River Sublobe
- Idaho and Montana
  - Purcell Trench Lobe
    - Maximal Stand
    - Priest River Valley and Glacial Priest Lake
    - Glacial Lake Missoula and Jokulhlaups
    - Relation of Glacial Lake Missoula to Alpine Glaciers
    - Relation of Lake Sediment to Ice-Sheet Moraines
  - West Kootenai Glacier
  - East Kootenai Glacier
  - Flathead Lobe
- Discussion of Glaciation
Deglaciation
- Puget and Juan de Fuca Lobes
  - Chronology
  - Terminal Zone in the Puget Lowland
  - Southern and Central Puget Lowland and Strait of Juan de Fuca
  - Northern Puget Lowland
  - Glacial Isostasy
- North-Central Washington: Okanogan Lobe
  - Waterville Plateau
  - Glacial Lake Columbia and the Upper Grand Coulee
  - Lower Methow, Chelan, and Adjacent Columbia valleys
    - "Great" Terrace and Lake Brewster
    - Catastrophic Floods
  - Methow Valley and Northeastern Cascade Range
  - Okanogan and Sanpoil Valleys
- Northeastern Washington
  - Upper Columbia and Colville Valleys
  - Pend Oreille Drainage Basin
- Idaho and Montana
  - Purcell Trench Lobe
    - Glacial Lake Missoula
    - Glacial Lake Kootenay
  - West Kootenai Glacier
  - East Kootenai Glacier
  - Flathead Lake
- Summary and Discussion of Deglaciation
Summary
Notes
Dedication
References

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REPORT: The Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Washington, Idaho, and Montana

REPORT:
The Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Washington, Idaho, and Montana