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SkatmanRoth

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5. Don't forget that 15000 years ago the whole place was under a mile thick ice sheet

Reply to cstanleytech (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 10, 2019, 06:52 PM

Jun 2019

Once all the weight of the ice was gone, the land started to rise. Things happen slow with geologic changes, and this earthquake is the land readjusting to the missing ice.

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Actually op I'm not surprised as the great lakes themselves exist because cstanleytech Jun 2019 #4

Don't forget that 15000 years ago the whole place was under a mile thick ice sheet SkatmanRoth Jun 2019 #5

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