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1.1 Geographic features. 1.2 Water levels. 2 Geology. 3 History. ... Map showing Lake Erie, 1754 Walk in Water, built in Buffalo, was the first steamship on Lake Erie.
A 1901 map of Lake Erie prepared by the War Department, Corps of Engineers projected from a trigonometrical survey executed in 1875, 1876, 1877 and 1878. Additions and corrections in 1900 and 1901. Map shows lighthouses, soundings, bouies, and islands in Lake Erie.
Depth map showing the three basins of Lake Erie. The islands are in the westernmost, shallowest basin. Glacial grooves stemming from the Wisconsin glaciation at Kelleys Island, Ohio. The Lake Erie Islands are geologically part of the Silurian Columbus Limestone.
Lake Erie Basin consists of Lake Erie and surrounding watersheds, which are typically named after the river, creek, or stream that provides drainage into the lake. The watersheds are located in the states of Indiana , Michigan , New York , Ohio , and Pennsylvania in the United States , and in the province of Ontario in Canada .
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
Early Lake Erie was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. The early Erie fed waters to Glacial Lake Iroquois . The ancient lake was similar in size to the current lake during glacial retreat, but for some period the eastern half of the lake was covered with ice.
The largest known seiche on Lake Erie was a 22-foot event that killed 77 people and dammed Niagara Falls with ice, temporarily stopping the waterfall from flowing. More recently, a 16-foot seiche ...
Erie, [a] officially the City of Erie, is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is the fifth-most populous city in Pennsylvania and the most populous in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 at the 2020 census.