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Hudson River

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Hudson River its own citations 2 paragraphs

59:4.15240,000,000 years ago the land over parts of both Eu­rope and North and South Amer­ica be­gan to sink. This sub­si­dence marked the ap­pear­ance of the last and least ex­ten­sive of the De­vo­nian floods. The arc­tic seas again moved south­ward over much of North Amer­ica, the At­lantic in­un­dated a large part of Eu­rope and west­ern Asia, while the south­ern Pa­cific cov­ered most of In­dia. This in­un­da­tion was slow in ap­pear­ing and equally slow in re­treat­ing. The Catskill Moun­tains along the west bank of the Hud­son River are one of the largest ge­o­logic mon­u­ments of this epoch to be found on the sur­face of North Amer­ica.

60:1.3These de­posits vary in thick­ness from 3,000 to 10,000 feet, even be­ing 18,000 on the Pa­cific coast. Lava was later forced in be­tween many of these lay­ers. The Pal­isades of the Hud­son River were formed by the ex­tru­sion of basalt lava be­tween these Tri­as­sic strata. Vol­canic ac­tion was ex­ten­sive in dif­fer­ent parts of the world.

Great Lakes once emptied through 1 paragraph

61:7.10This is the glacier that sent forth the many tongues, or ice lobes, which carved out the pres­ent-day lakes, great and small. Dur­ing its re­treat the North Amer­i­can sys­tem of Great Lakes was pro­duced. And Uran­tian ge­ol­o­gists have very ac­cu­rately de­duced the var­i­ous stages of this de­vel­op­ment and have cor­rectly sur­mised that these bod­ies of wa­ter did, at dif­fer­ent times, empty first into the Mis­sis­sippi val­ley, then east­ward into the Hud­son val­ley, and fi­nally by a north­ern route into the St. Lawrence. It is thirty-seven thou­sand years since the con­nected Great Lakes sys­tem be­gan to empty out over the pres­ent Ni­a­gara route.