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    Summary of Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
    Summary of Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
    Summary of Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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    Summary of Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

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    #1 The St. Lawrence Seaway, which was created to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the five inland seas, did not conquer nature, but instead unleashed it in the form of an ecological catastrophe.

    #2 The Mediterranean Sea was dry for hundreds of thousands of years, but around 5. 3 million years ago, it was flooded by the Atlantic Ocean. The Black Sea was isolated from the Mediterranean Sea around 7,600 years ago.

    #3 The Great Lakes were once isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, but erosion has been taking place at Niagara Falls for thousands of years. It is expected that the falls will disappear in about 50,000 years, which is geologically speaking, pretty soon.

    #4 The St. Lawrence River, which flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, is a map-taunting example of how the tendril of blue that stretches out from Lake Ontario turns viciously narrow and impenetrable to upstream navigation just upstream of Montreal.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateApr 12, 2022
    ISBN9781669385226
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      #1

      The St. Lawrence Seaway, which was created to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the five inland seas, did not conquer nature, but instead unleashed it in the form of an ecological catastrophe.

      #2

      The Mediterranean Sea was dry for hundreds of thousands of years, but around 5. 3 million years ago, it was flooded by the Atlantic Ocean. The Black Sea was isolated from the Mediterranean Sea around 7,600 years ago.

      #3

      The Great Lakes were once isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, but erosion has been taking place at Niagara Falls for thousands of years. It is expected that the falls will disappear in about 50,000 years, which is geologically speaking, pretty soon.

      #4

      The St. Lawrence River, which flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, is a map-taunting example of how the tendril of blue that stretches out from Lake Ontario turns viciously narrow and impenetrable to upstream navigation just upstream of Montreal.

      #5

      The Great Lakes were a set of interconnected fish-filled freshwater seas that were larger than any explorer had ever encountered. They were surrounded by forests of pine and hardwoods that were full of game.

      #6

      The English military began chewing their way upriver to supply troop outposts in 1781, and by 1800, the river beyond Montreal had become accessible to larger Durham boats that could be equipped with a sail and haul more than double the cargo of a bateau.

      #7

      The Lachine Rapids lock and canal system was built in 1825 to bypass the Rapids, and the impact it had on goods flowing into North America’s interior was almost immediate. By the early 1830s, about 2,000 trips on the river between Montreal and Lake Ontario occurred annually.

      #8

      Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes, and it is about 350 miles long and 160 miles wide. It holds enough water to submerge a landmass about the size of North and South America under a foot of water.

      #9

      The Erie Canal, which was built in the early 1800s, was a dream of President Washington’s that was realized with the opening of the canal in 1825. It connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.

      #10

      The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a watershed event not unlike what had happened some five million years before when the first drops of Atlantic waters

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