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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: American War a dystopic novel
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:56:14 -0700
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In article <vb9n54$3rn95$1@dont-email.me>,
 Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/3/2024 3:56 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:17:02 -0400, Kevrob <kjrobinson@mail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I remember Jack Kirby's take on Earth: After Disaster -
> >> "Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth."
> >>
> >> The Great Lakes will have merged and Hudson's Bay gets surrounded by land.
> > 
> > I'm going to have to look that one up since if Erie and Ontario merge
> > that's a major event (not to mention Superior which is 150-200 meters
> > further above see level) since those two are connected by Niagara
> > Falls (which is about a 75 meter difference between top and bottom)
> 
> I did look it up.
> 
> If all ice melted, the Great Lakes would not be affected. Sea level
> would rise about 230 feet, but Lake Ontario is at 246 feet, and is
> the lowest.
> 

IMHO, the "simpliest" way to make the Great Lakes one body of water 
requires a big uplift downstream on the St. Lawrence river. There will 
also would have to be lesser uplifts in Illinois (and possibly Ohio) to 
include Lake Superior in the Great Inland Sea.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com