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Glacial Gold in Ohio
January 2002 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD
Ohio is an industrialized, midwestern state with a population of 11.5 million and an area of 40,953 square miles. Annual precipitation is about 40 inches, enough to give rise to hardwood forests...
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