Comments on: Lakes

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:13:49 +0000

Great! Now that the strike is over, I am going to read this post again, I liked it so much the first time.

By: Brian Raub

Brian Raub — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:45:10 +0000

That’s the best essay I’ve read about lakes!

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By: Birger Johansson

Birger Johansson — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:48:41 +0000

The larger and medium-sized lakes are reborn after each ice age, as the glaciers sweep away the soft sediments as they travel across.
Sweden and Finland are especially rich of lakes -the many Scandinavian settlers in Minnesota would have felt right at home (see Vilhelm Moberg’s epic about Swedish immigrants in Minnesota), although the continental climate makes the summers warmer and the winters colder.
On some very few places, you can find buried peat bogs from the Eemian that evaded the “big sweep” of the latest glaciation. These are quite valuable for science, since they provide a snapshot of organic materials.

Ocean basins do not have time to fill up with sediments, so in an anoxic site like the bottom of the Black Sea, it should be possible to find intact driftwood, and even locate the site of origin using isotope abundances. Get some automated submersibles going, with sophisticated sonar/radar to locate logs under the silt. and you would eventually be able to do dendrochronology sequences into the ice age, and beyond 🙂

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:07:58 +0000

CherryBomb: Great, I’m glad you have learned this new information about the geography of New York!

New York has many lakes, and impressive lakes. The finger lakes are pretty cool, for instance. But the comparison I make here is accurate, and it is not just a comparison of NY and Minnesota, but rather, a comparison of different terrains and how they erode, and how they respond to being wet. though I did not discuss arid regions, that is a big interest of mine.

(There are actually several lakes in Phoenix, but the only hold water every few centuries!)

I’ve adjusted the post to include graphic illustrations of my point so it is clearer.

By: ranggaw0636

ranggaw0636 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:56:08 +0000

I’m lucky my city have to big and beautiful lake

By: CherryBomb

CherryBomb — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:23:19 +0000

Lakes are uncommon in upstate New York? This is news to me. My perception may be colored by growing up in the middle of a desert, but New York seems to be slam full of lakes to me.

By: Dirk Hanson

Dirk Hanson — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:28:34 +0000

Thanks for the lake essay. I read it while sitting at the front window of my northern Minnesota lake home, gazing out at the waters as they flow north to Hudson Bay, and hoping that the Canadian metals company that wants to build a copper mine 5 miles from my lake will fail in their efforts…

By: eric

eric — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:57:53 +0000

yeah,,, i agree about that..
i like lakes.. 🙂