On the west side of the Cascade Mountains, two lobes covered the Puget Lowlands. Along the north side of the Olympic Mountains the Juan de Fuca Lobe moved west, and between the Olympics and the Cascades the Puget Lobe moved south.

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Jennifer Ott

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Puget Lowland

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Vashon glacier begins to melt and recede from Puget Sound region and Columbia Basin around 16,900 years ago (historylink.org)

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