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John D. Weimer Cape Girardeau, MO, USA	Posted: December 07, 2006 12:07PM Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 21,577

I was just looking at the mountain out the front window of Geoff's house here in a high part of Ogden. There is a horizontal line on it about 500 feet higher than the house which is the shore line of ancient Lake Bonnniville. I can't imagine how big that lake was at one time as it is now nearly 100 miles to the shore line of it from here now.

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JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: December 07, 2006 12:25PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,869

BIG! Wikipedia says nearly 20,000 square miles (about the size of Lake Michigan) and significantly deeper at 1000 feet. That took quite a lot of water to fill. :eyepop:

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Stewart Stewart Langenberg S Pasadena Ca, USA 1975 MG MGB	Posted: December 07, 2006 12:59PM Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,822

You can see that line all around the salt lake area. It's amazing how much water used to be in the southwest at the end of the last ice age. Look up Lake Missoula and it can give you an idea of how much water was around. The photo below shows the ripples left in the landscape after the ice damn that held it released. Basically it released enough water go in 48 hours to drain the equivalent of Lakes Ontario and Erie.

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JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: December 07, 2006 03:18PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,869

Man! Glad I wasn't in the path of that!

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yesiownanmgb Zack A. Abbeville, LA, USA	Posted: December 07, 2006 04:11PM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 1,398

1000 feet of water? the mafia would have loved that.

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BumbleB74 William Milholen Tidewater VA, USA	Posted: December 07, 2006 04:16PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 4,645

And Al Gore thinks the world has never seen such big changes. Yeah right...

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KLUTZ Paul Coxon INNISFIL, Alcona Beach, Ontario, Canada 1979 Chevrolet Corvette 1999 Chevrolet Corvette "DREMKAR" 2009 Mazda 6 2010 Mazda B-Series	Posted: December 07, 2006 05:12PM Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 13,981

John D. Weimer Wrote:

Quote: I can't imagine how big that lake was at one time as it is now nearly 100 miles to the shore line of it from here now.

I was waiting for Jack to say, "I remember when it was only 50 miles to the shore line."

grinning smiley

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sirstirling william rowe manchester nh, USA	Posted: December 09, 2006 09:44AM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 349

Anybody see that PBS thing on this last year? Pretty amazing.

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