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To: staytrue

So in about 160 years it will be a swamp! something for your great-great grandchildren to anticipate!


8 posted on 01/03/2014 9:14:19 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Swamps can be turned into some amazing farmland. There’s an are north of here that was a drained swamp and it’s got the richest soil in the whole country.


10 posted on 01/03/2014 9:21:24 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission; Squawk 8888

You made me want to recheck my facts which were wrong.

http://www.hillsdalecounty.info/planningeduc0026.asp

“. The crust is rising the most, more than 21 inches per century, in the northern portion of the basin, where the glacial ice sheet was the thickest, heaviest and the last to retreat. There is little or no movement in the southern parts of the basin. As a result, the Great Lakes basin is gradually tipping, a phenomenon most pronounced around Lake Superior.”

http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/06/08/lake-levels-report-weighs-great-lakes-basins-glacial-legacy/

“The International Joint Commission, a binational group that manages the Great Lakes, wanted to know if that was happening between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.

Around 1860, the surface of Lake Huron sat around 9 feet higher than the surface of Lake Erie, according to the IJC report released in May. By 2008, Huron was only 6 feet higher than Erie.


12 posted on 01/03/2014 10:05:58 PM PST by staytrue
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