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There have been 6,000 shipwrecks in the great lakes, take that Bermuda triangle!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

For anyone that didn't know, Lake Superior is that deep because it is a failed mid-continental rift. That means that at some point, way in the past, North America almost split in two, and Lake Superior would have been another ocean between the two halves. This is what created the Keweenaw peninsula

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

The continent was actually Laurentia back then. Lake Ontario, the St Lawrence Valley and the Gulf of St Lawrence are all part of the same rift.

Lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie are all the shorelines of ancient seas that were ringed by coral. This left behind soft Calcite rock that the glaciers carved away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You don't mess with Canada's shield

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this is the first time I have heard of this. Do you have a recommendation on this here to learn more about it?