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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Baker Lake (Washington), Baker River (Washington), Boston Peak, Buckner Mountain, Cascade Pass, Cascade River (Washington), Cypress Island, Deception Pass, Dome Peak, Eldorado Peak, Fidalgo Island, Fir Island (Washington), Forbidden Peak, Guemes Island, Hart Island (Washington), Johannesburg Mountain, Jordan Creek Falls, Kiket Island, Lake Shannon, Little Cranberry Lake, Mount Erie (Washington), Mount Torment, Padilla Bay, Ptarmigan Traverse, Puget Sound, Rosario Strait, Sahale Mountain, Samish Island, Washington, Samish River, Sauk River (Washington), Sinclair Island (Washington), Skagit Bay, Skagit River, Skagit Valley, South Cascade Glacier, South Cascade Lake, Stillaguamish River, Strawberry Island (Rosario Strait, Washington), Suiattle River, Swinomish Channel, Vendovi Island, Waterfalls of the North Fork Cascade River Valley, Whistle Lake. Excerpt: Puget Sound - a: lang(ar), a: lang(ckb), a: lang(fa), a: lang(kk-arab), a: lang(mzn), a: lang(ps), a: lang(ur)/* cache key: enwiki: resourceloader: filter: minify-css:7: d11e4771671c2d6cdedf7c90d8131cd5 */ Snowcapped peaks are a backdrop to many Puget Sound scenes; here Mount Rainier is seen from Gig Harbor.Continental ice sheets have repeatedly advanced and retreated from the Puget Sound region. The most recent glacial period, called the Fraser Glaciation, had three phases, or stades. During the third, or Vashon Glaciation, a lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, called the Puget Lobe, spread south about 15,000 years ago, covering the Puget Sound region with an ice sheet about 3,000 feet (910 m) thick near Seattle, and nearly 6,000 feet (1,800 m) at the present Canada-US border. Since each new advance of ice scours away much of the evidence of previous ice ages, the most recent Vashon phase has left the clearest imprint on the land. At its maximum extent the Vashon ice sheet extended south of Olympia to near Tenino, and covered the lowlands between the Olympic and Cascade mountains. About 14,000 years ago the ice began to retreat. By 11,000 years ago it survived only north of the Canadian border. The Vashon Glaciation scoured the land, creating a drumlin field of hundreds of aligned drumlin hills. Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish (which are ribbon lakes), Hood Canal, and the main Puget Sound basin were carved out by glacial forces. As the ice retreated, vast amounts of glacial till were deposited throughout the Puget Sound region. The soils of the region, less than ten thousand years old, are still characterized as immature. As the Vashon glacier receded a series of proglacial lakes formed, filling the main trough of Puget Sound and inundating the southern lowlands. Glacial Lake Russell was the first such large recessional lake. From the vicinity of Seattle in the north the lake extended south to the Black Hills, where it drained south into the Chehalis River. Sedim
