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The Great Ice Age

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During the Great Ice Age, or Pleistocene Epoch (about 1 million to 10,000 years ago), huge glaciers covered much of North America. They didn’t reach as far south as West Virginia, but they still had a big impact on the state’s land, rocks, plants, and animals, leaving behind features we can still see today.

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