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Timeline of the Far Future

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by jathu • 12 years ago

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mcmatterson• 12 years ago

Concerning Niagara Falls, from footnote 9:

"The Niagara Peninsula became free of the ice about 12,500 years ago. As the ice retreated northward, its melt waters began to flow down through what became Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, down to the St. Lawrence River and on to the Atlantic Ocean. There were originally five spillways from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Eventually, these were reduced to one, the original Niagara Falls, at the escarpment at Queenston-Lewiston. From here, the falls began its steady erosion through the bedrock."

Crazy to think that it's gone all that way (a little over 10km) in just 12,500 years.

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