heated and stretched the crust under the spot that would eventually become the Great Lakes. This process, which happened over tens of millions of years, led to a low spot in the topography of the ...

resulting in the region's low topography. After the glaciers in the region melted, the lakes started forming. The Great Lakes hold 21% of the world's fresh water in the current date. "It was the ...

Above: Satellite view of the Great Lakes on a recent clear day (December 22, 2019), showing less than 2% overall ice cover, about normal for this point in the winter, mainly in Green Bay and ...

When towns along the Great Lakes in the United States get buried in drifts of blowing snow, weather experts start talking about the “lake effect”. Lake-effect snow often occurs in relatively ...

Photo courtesy of Matt Zuro. Image from NWS webpage. The Laurentian Great Lakes, as the world's largest unfrozen surface freshwater system, hold paramount significance in maintaining the ecological ...