Reading
Groundwater, Allan Freeze, John A. Cherry, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1979
Principles of Geochemistry; Brian Mason; John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1965
Living with the Lake Erie Shore; Charles H. Carter, Willam J. Neal, William S. Haras, Orrin H. Pilkey Jr.; Durham and London, Duke University Press, 1987
The Lake Erie Shore – Ontario’s Forgotten South Coast; Ron Brown; Natural Heritage Books, 2009
The Subsurface Paleozoic Stratigraphy of Southern Ontario; D. K. Armstrong, T. R. Carter; Ontario Geological Survey, Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2010
Around the Shores of Lake Erie; Donna Marchette; Glovebox Guide Books of America, 1998
Historical Atlas of Elgin County, Ontario, Illustrated, H. R. Page & Co., 1877
Historical Atlas of Norfolk County, Ontario, Illustrated, H. R. Page & Co., 1877
Sedimentary Environment of Lake Erie: Geologic Setting, Sediment Distribution, and Modern Evolutionary Trends; Najeeb Rasul, John P. Coakley, Rolf Pippert; National Water Research Institute, 1997
Viewing
Lake Erie’s Disappearing Shoreline, YouTube video hosted by the Long Point Basin Land Trust with guest presenter Chris Houser, 49 minutes with the presentation starting at 2:35. At the time of this presentation, Dr. Houser was with the University of Windsor. He is now the Dean of Science at the University of Waterloo. 2022
The Mysteries Of North America’s Great Lakes, YouTube video, 46 minutes duration
Please note that the film has a couple of obvious errors. Early in the film (1:45), it states that at peak flow, over 40 million gallons per minute go over Niagara Falls. Later in the film (20:20) it states that 150 thousand gallons per minute go over the falls – a huge discrepancy. I did some checking, and the first figure is more accurate. I think what happened is the film’s producers mistakenly used the wrong units for the second stated flow rate. If they had said 150 thousand cubic meters per minute instead of 150 thousand gallons per minute, that would have been accurate. One cubic meter is the equivalent of about 264 U.S. gallons or 220 imperial gallons, so they must have been thinking U.S. gallons both times, although that was not clear the first time and very wrong the second time. With quantities, the units are just as important as the numbers.
Also in the film, the point is made that the land is still bouncing back following the disappearance of the glaciers, but mistakenly states that the southern portion of the affected land is sinking. The southern portion is not sinking, but rather not rising as fast as the northern affected lands where the glaciers were thicker and therefore heavier. The isostatic uplift is occurring at differing rates, hence, in general, the Great Lakes are slowly tilting toward the south which, thanks to gravity, adds more water to the south – Lake Erie.
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