Superior A Deep Blue Sea
by Evie Carrier
Title
Superior A Deep Blue Sea
Artist
Evie Carrier
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Is it a Lake or Is it a sea?? A little east of the middle of North America, Lake Superior (or gichigami in Ojibwe) retains the defining characteristics of a lake, but behaves like an inland sea. It has a small tide, busy international ports and 3-quadrillion gallons of water. That's:
3,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (11.4-quadrillion liters)
Enough to submerge North and South America under 1 foot of fresh water
10 percent of the world’s fresh surface water
Over half of the water contained in the Great Lakes
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third largest by volume. Scoured into its present form by the retreating glacial ice sheet covering the region during the last Ice Age (about 10,000 years ago), Superior’s cold waters are bounded by northern hardwood and conifer forests and buffeted by continental weather patterns.
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January 21st, 2015
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