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St. Lawrence River

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St. Lawrence River its own citations 2 paragraphs

59:4.16230,000,000 years ago the seas were con­tin­u­ing their re­treat. Much of North Amer­ica was above wa­ter, and great vol­canic ac­tiv­ity oc­curred in the St. Lawrence re­gion. Mount Royal, at Mon­treal, is the eroded neck of one of these vol­ca­noes. The de­posits of this en­tire epoch are well shown in the Ap­palachian Moun­tains of North Amer­ica where the Susque­hanna River has cut a val­ley ex­pos­ing these suc­ces­sive lay­ers, which at­tained a thick­ness of over 13,000 feet.

61:7.5In North Amer­ica the ad­vanc­ing fifth glacier con­sisted of a com­bined in­va­sion by all three ice cen­ters. The east­ern lobe, how­ever, ex­tended only a short dis­tance be­low the St. Lawrence val­ley, and the west­ern ice sheet made lit­tle south­ern ad­vance. But the cen­tral lobe reached south to cover most of the state of Iowa. In Eu­rope this in­va­sion of the ice was not so ex­ten­sive as the pre­ced­ing one.

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.