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Turning Back The Clock 10,000 Years (Great Lakes)
South Bend Tribune ^
| 12-21-2006
Posted on 12/21/2006 2:45:15 PM PST by blam
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posted on
12/21/2006 2:45:16 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Most folks don't know that Michigan has more miles of shoreline than the entire Left coast.
First time viewers often do the taste test for salt thinking they can't possibly be lakes.
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posted on
12/21/2006 2:53:57 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: blam
Lake levels were a lot lower back then and GLOBAL WARMING (GASP!!!!!!!) caused CATASTROPHIC inundations of
sensitive habitats.
All without any action by man.
Amazing.
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posted on
12/21/2006 2:55:54 PM PST
by
PeterFinn
(B’fhearr Gaeilge briste na Béarla cliste.)
To: ASA Vet
Our company in Chicagoland hosts many first time visitors from California.
Reaction: It's a lake?
To: HoosierHawk
I've taken several dry land folks to the lakes. Same reaction as you describe.
20% of the worlds fresh water in in our lakes.
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posted on
12/21/2006 3:02:27 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: ASA Vet
We do love our lakes.
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posted on
12/21/2006 3:06:24 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: HoosierHawk
Our company in Chicagoland hosts many first time visitors from California.
Reaction: It's a lake?
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Tell them the name the early French explorers gave it was Mer D'Aley.
See how fast they catch on.
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posted on
12/21/2006 3:15:47 PM PST
by
Cheburashka
( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: Cheburashka
As one who was born and raised in Mitten-gan and now resides in suburban Chicago...
THAT's funny!
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posted on
12/21/2006 3:24:45 PM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(I'll be retiring in SW Mittenland but, it's gonna be a while.)
To: blam
Lake Superior has always given me the creeps long before the "The Edmund Fitzgerald"
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posted on
12/21/2006 3:26:30 PM PST
by
Kimmers
To: zot
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posted on
12/21/2006 3:28:20 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
( (3rd Armored Division - Spearhead))
To: GreyFriar
Back atchya, sir. Of course you know that General Custer was a Michigander.
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posted on
12/21/2006 4:02:55 PM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Labrador Retrievers are the dog's dog)
To: Thebaddog
And Fort Custer is a swampy mess except the higher ground which is full of briers, ticks, and sand.
Perfect for crawling around playing weekend warrior. Did a little OCS there.
WW II barracks of course.
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posted on
12/21/2006 4:33:33 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: ASA Vet
Those WWII barracks are still there now -- I stay in them regularly.
To: PeterFinn
Re: All without any action by man.
Sorry old sport, but it says above, "Americans Indians lived near these sinkholes..."
Yep... Those galled danged Native Americans did it!
Guess old Algore will soon be calling for all the ancient Native Americans to be dug up and run through wood chippers...
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posted on
12/21/2006 4:43:33 PM PST
by
Bender2
(I am off politics until Nancy moves to Tehran... There to be taken straight to the ever after!)
To: ASA Vet
Did you see the article posting about the Great Lakes 10,000 years ago? Very interesting.
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posted on
12/21/2006 6:00:00 PM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Labrador Retrievers are the dog's dog)
To: GreyFriar
Thanks for the ping. A petrified forest under water is very interesting. Maybe the land in that area rebounded after the glaciers melted at the end of the last ice age and then settled down again more recently.
It still seems amazing to me that the Great Lakes drain into the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence River, instead of into the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River.
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posted on
12/21/2006 7:01:30 PM PST
by
zot
(GWB -- the most slandered man of this decade)
To: Thebaddog
Yes it's the one we're on. haha.
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posted on
12/21/2006 7:35:12 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: zot
Lake Michigan drains a little into the Mississippi now. Engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River & it became the Chicago ship & sanitary canal. You can guess the sanitary part.
To: ASA Vet
Frooze my nose visiting St Joe's.
Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/21/2006 7:45:35 PM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
To: Cold Heart
Yes, I know about the Chicago River and ship and "sanitary" canal. The engineers didn't have to tunnel or dig very deep, so I'm amazed nature didn't do that. There is just a small rise of ground along the Great Lakes that keeps them flowing east instead of south. If there had been even one significant breach at any time since the lakes were formed, the lakes would have dug their own canal to the Mississippi, or more likely, to the Ohio River.
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posted on
12/21/2006 10:32:38 PM PST
by
zot
(GWB -- the most slandered man of this decade)
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