Posted on 09/19/2003 5:12:31 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
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Hope you came through the storm okay. I never heard Charlotte mentioned in the news, so that is good. Fortunately, you are far enough inland so that you probably just got the fringes of the storm.
Coffee tastes better with blueberry muffins : )
Yours sure does, because it's Finest coffee.
Good morning to you!
Thank you. :-) :-)
And *SPAM*??? LOL! I'll have to check out the "yummy recipes" - watch out .45MAN!!
LOL!!! Isn't Spam funny? There are even several websites devoted to Spam Haikus! Everyone loves to make fun of Spam.
I checked out some of those recipes, but when you get right down to it, no matter what you do to it, it's still Spam. LOL.
Good morning (((((((((((dansy and .45 Man))))))))))))))!
Lake Superior Facts
Lake Superior is the world's largest freshwater lake - a huge, rock-bound lake that is capable of piling ice high against the shore, and producing ocean sized currents and waves. Waves as large as 31 feet have been recorded, and Lake Superior is the grave of more than 325 ships. Lying between the 47th and 49th parallels of latitude, it stretches 380 miles east to west and 160 miles across at its widest. The big lake has 2900 miles of shoreline, 31820 square miles of surface area, an average depth of 489 feet and a maximum sounding depth of 1333 feet. Water clarity is incredible, with visibility recorded to as much as 65 to 75 feet. Average water temperature is 40º F and it can effect a difference in air temperature as much as 20º F as far as 20 miles from its shores.
Lake Superior Geology
Lake Superior is located in a downward fold, or trough, of Precambrian rock. The basin resulted from a combination of geologic events. The gradual processes that formed the Lake Superior basin began during the Late Precambrian Period some 1150 million years ago when the earth's crust split apart, with great floods of molten rock spewing forth on the surface as lava flows or cooling off and hardening below. This activity continued for some 20 million years. As the flows congealed into new earth crust, the bedrock beneath gradually sank, tilting the overlying mass eastward. The depression continued to sink even after the volcanic period, developing into an impressive basin. Wind and water erosion over the next millions of years laid down a thick layer of mud, sand, and gravel until the basin was a broad low plain. About a million years ago, the great glaciers of the Ice Age began their slow work of carving the coast. Four successive waves of mile-thick ice gouged out the basin, exposing the intricate and varied volcanic formations of the basin rim while depositing the sediments hundreds of miles to the southeast. During glacial retreat, meltwaters filled this basin far above present levels. The Lake Superior of that time (about 12,000 years ago) is called Glacial Lake Duluth by geologists. As outlets to the south and east opened, the lake level subsided. Eventually the lake reached its present surface elevation of 602 feet above sea level.
Virtually all of the bedrock of the North Shore consists of Upper Precambrian volcanic rocks poured out from a giant rift about 1.1 billion years ago, as the continent started to tear itself apart. A few intrusive rocks exist, such as the massive jointed sill at Silver Cliff, and irregular intrusive bodies such as the diabase at Silver Bay and Beaver Bay. These diabase bodies host very large inclusions, such as the white one that Split Rock Light House is built upon
I agree! :-)
Kind of like - and I know I'm going to get flamed for this - grits. You *can't* do a whole lot with grits!
Awwww........thank you. :-)
Good morning, sistah Aqua. Happy FRiday to you!
I had NO IDEA about the enclosed skyways!
Isn't that the most creative idea? People shopping in downtown Minneapolis just don't need to deal with the weather at all.
Did you get much of the hurricane up your way?
Greetings from Iceland and all us Sailors, Airmen, and Soldiers serving here!
Mornin', everybody ! Happy Friday !!
note to self: no wellstone posts here today ...
Why is it that Greenland is more icy than green, and the Iceland is more green that ice ?? :O)My Dad was stationed in Thule 'Top of the World', Greenland and Goose Bay, Labrador in 1964 ...
The beautiful tree had graced the mini-park across from us until this hussy--obviously a Democrat-- did her dirty work.
Waves as large as 31 feet have been recorded, and Lake Superior is the grave of more than 325 ships.
Wow! I have never seen any of the Great Lakes, but it is hard to imagine lakes that are so huge they are like oceans.
I was wondering which lake is the eternal resting place of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and it is Lake Superior.
The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald - November 10, 197
"The lake it is said never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy."
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