Posted on 10/02/2025 12:25:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
The big lake is the head end of the Great Midcontinental Rift.
One of the known largest buildups of lava on earth
That rift runs all the way to OK and, most likely, beyond on the west and most likely all they way down to AL on the east...they just dont know yet. But the west is confirmed.
The earthquakes that happen around OK and MO etc, is likely caused by fault lines caused by the ice depressing that area in the last ice age and now is rebounding.
If you go to Eagle Harbor in the UP of Michigan, you can stand on the southern edge of that rift...the earths crust is exposed. Meaning if you try and dig to get below the rock you wont be able to do it. The rock is tilted at about a 25 degree angle. The northern edge is at about Isle Royal. The rock tilts the other way there. The ancient rift is in the lake there.
I watched videos of “ice shoves” off of one of these lakes and it was horrifying. Shards of ice stacked several feet deep coming into a neighborhood.
Stuff of nightmares.
Depending on where they were located on the mountain: perhaps, but perhaps not.
Well, the drab coloring is correct, LOL!
WOW. I’ve jumped in that freezing cold water many times.
The glaciers were around a mile thick. Where do you think the lakes came from?
I see that. Everything I learned about fish was at the Fresh Water Fish Display at Cabela’s, LOL!
No, I had a loving Grandpa who took me fishing. And I had to bait my own hook, and I had to clean my own fish, and I got to help cook them. Friday Night at Big Silver Lake was ALWAYS a Fish Fry. Then later, Ice Cream! Yay!
I also had to learn the common name AND the Latin/Genus for whatever fish I caught. (Yellow Perch, Sunfish, Pumpkinseed, Bluegill.)
And if he had to yell at me for something dumb I did - “Get your hook baited and get it back in the water! They’re biting! They’re not just gonna JUMP into the boat!” just remember:
There’s No Crying In Fishing!
And he and Dad taught me to play Cribbage when I was four and could hold my hand of cards properly and count/add to 31.
Likewise: There’s No Crying In Cribbage!
I know where they came from: They were hollowed out by the glaciers, of course, but obviously the mountains around them were not flattened by them. My comment presumed these mountains were still above ground before the lakes were filled with water after the glaciers receded.
Yes it did. Three times the height of the Statue of Liberty.
Very wise, fwdude.
Superior is one mean b*tch.
Dad built aa A frame house on Lac LaBelle which connects into Lake Superior. That was our summer vacation every year growing up. Mom was born and raised on a farm just outside of Kearsarge.
Were you able to get your pants clean? 😉😂😂
One summer, it got in the '90s for three weeks.
It was warm down about ten feet - but there was a layer of cold water below that.
Until the wind shifted to coming in off the lake...
What is the draft on the larger vessels?
Underwater Native American sites in the Great Lakes region include significant prehistoric hunting structures discovered beneath Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, dating back approximately 9,000 to 10,000 years.
Thanks!
The injuns arrived from the Bering Land Bridge about the time that the glaciers were melting. They would not have been too cozy living beneath a melting glacier. Drip, drip, drip. Ugg, fire go out again. Sure, they lived along the edges and built primitive camps.
Yes, and I always enjoyed spending hours looking for agates on the beach. Thimbleberry jam is the greatest jam I’ve ever tasted.
Regarding Lac LaBelle,do you remember weather showman Sonny Elliott having a little squeaky button on the board and he’d say “Lac LaBelle, which is right about (squeak) here!
ABSOLUTELY! Thanks. So many great childhood memories. ❤️
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.