ÿþ <html> <head> <title>Glacier Estate</title> </head> <meta name="title" content="Glacier Estate"> <meta name="description" content="Glacier Estate"> <meta name="keywords" content="Glacier Estate"> <title>Glacier Estate </title> <body background="Blue.jpg"> <body> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="100%" style="background-image:url('brushed9.jpg')" > <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;<p> <font size="4">GLACIAL LAKE <p> </p></font></td><br> </tr> </table> </div> </body> <body> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="100%" style="background-image:url('brushed9.jpg')" > <tr> <td width="50%" align="left" valign="top">&nbsp; <font size="3">In the neighborhood of 10-20,000 years ago, a Laurentide Glacier moved though the area. Over one mile deep this massive glacier pushed down land over 350 feet, in some areas below Sea level. The ocean extended into these areas.<br><br> The map shows the furthest extent of the ocean into the land. The current shoreline is shown by a white line. The dashed lines are maximum Glacial boarders at various times. The solid black lines running north and south represent the location of great glacial rivers tunneling through the bottom of the Glacier. <br><br> Glaciers have played a significant role in creating the present day landscape. The surface has been transformed by glacial carving, accented by glacial deposits and refined by glacial rivers and waterfalls. </font></td><br> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="map.jpg" width="214" height="300"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> <br><br> Glacial ridges can be sculpted by ice carving the earth and depositing rocks. <body> <div align="center"> <table border="1" width="100%" style="background-image:url('brushed9.jpg')" > <tr> <td width="25%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="ridget.jpg" width="200" height="250"></td> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="top">&nbsp; <p><font size="4">The 200 Foot Lake Ridge. </p></font><br> <font size="3"> Glacial rocks carefully piled after 10,000 years. Immediate Left: Picture of the top of the ridge. Right: A view from the top of the ridge of Birch Island. Below: Views while climbing up the ridge. Left : Shark Rock. Right: Animal Head Center: The climb continuing straight up. <p> </p></font></td><br> <td width="40%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="ridge.jpg" width="450" height="250"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> <body> <div align="center"> <table border="1" width="100%" style="background-image:url('brushed9.jpg')" > <tr> <td width="25%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="ridgel.jpg" width="250" height="250"></td> <td width="25%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="ridgeup.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> <td width="25%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="ridger.jpg" width="250" height="250"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> <body> <div align="center"> <table border="1" width="100%" style="background-image:url('brushed9.jpg')" > <tr> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="fridge.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="top">&nbsp; <p><font size="4">The Forest Ridge. </p></font><br> <p> <font size="3">Emerging from deep from within the forest lies a 60 foot ridge. This is the largest of three equidistant ridges. Left: Straight up above the magnified oval is the top of the ridge. In the magnified oval on the surface are rocks and boulders deposited by the Glacier. Right: A view of the forest from the top of the ridge.<p> </p></font></td><br> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="fridget.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> <br><br> A Marine Delta is a ridge formed by large deposits made where the ice meets the ocean. This process creates a steep slope of sand and rocks with a top flattened by the oceans surface. When the Glacier retreated, both land and Delta rose back above sea level. The Augusta airport was built on the flat top of a Delta. <body> <div align="center"> <table border="1" width="100%" style="background-image:url('brushed9.jpg')" > <tr> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="delta1.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="top">&nbsp; <p><font size="4">Marine Delta </p></font><br> <p><font size="3"> The rectangle outlines the Delta. The white bar near the top is the runway of the Augusta airport. The Glacier moved over the mountain ridge in the background and into the ocean. A massive wall of ice ran along the Delta. As the Glacier advanced, ice in front fell into the ocean keeping the wall where the Delta is now. <p> </p></font></td><br> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="delta2.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> <br><br> Ridges can also be formed by depositing sediments from glacial rivers tunning through the bottom of the glacier. The sediments that were deposited on the sides of these rivers are called Eskers. Eskers illustrate the direction in which the glacial rivers ran. Ridge Road in Chesterville was built on top of a famous Esker. This Esker and others outline a giant glacial river that ran south to the shore. See map above. <body> <div align="center"> <table border="1" width="100%" style="background-image:url('brushed9.jpg')" > <tr> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="esker1.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="top">&nbsp; <p><font size="4">Esker Ridge </p></font><br> <p><font size="3"> Left: Ridge Road on top of the the narrow Esker Ridge. Lakes border both sides of the Ridge. Right: Sand and rounded rocks that make up the ridge courtesy of a gravel pit. <p> </p></font></td><br> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="esker2.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> <br><br> As the ice piles up on top of a glacier its weight makes the edges move outward. Ice also moves due to temperature expansions. The forces of thermal expansion can be readily observed on the shores of the Lake. As the ice expands, it moves up on the shore. The lake ice then adheres to the shore thus preventing its retreat. <body> <div align="center"> <table border="1" width="100%" style="background-image:url('brushed9.jpg')" > <tr> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="shoreice1.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="top">&nbsp; <p><font size="4">Ice Moves </p></font><br> <p><font size="3">Ice reaches for the sky. The ends of the docks were moved 6 feet above the water. Ice lifted the large light brown rock under the right dock some 3 feet high.<p> </p></font></td><br> <td width="33%" align="center"> <img border="0" src="shoreice2.jpg" width="333" height="250"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </body> </html>