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#lakemichigan

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Eva Winterschön

🌇 Guten Morgen Chicago 🌇

Another beautiful sunrise from the shores of Lake Michigan, which seems more like one of the Great Inland Seas. Every morning, watching these sunrises the likes of which I've not seen since childhood on the Eastern Seaboard, feels like being at the Atlantic ocean.

How about some science curiosity...

> During the middle Pleistocene era, the area now submerged under the Great Lakes had been a lowland river system. As glaciers advanced and retreated they carved these areas into the Great Lakes and filled them as they melted.
> The preservation of fossils in Michigan resumed when the last glaciers withdrew from the state. Between 17,000 and 13,000 years ago, much of Michigan's icy covering had disappeared.
> After the glaciers melted much of the state was covered in large lakes made of glacial meltwater. By 10,000 years ago many of these lakes had dried. Forests of spruce and fir grew on the newly exposed terrain.

> - The Pleistocene (plaɪstəˌsiːn), referred to colloquially as the Ice Age, is the geological epoch that lasted from c. 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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> - The Cenozoic Era (siːnəˈzoʊ.ɪk, lit. 'new life') is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66 million years of Earth's history.

- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleon
- legacy.igws.indiana.edu/Fossil

another beautiful sunrise over the shores of Lake Michigan
#chicago#sunrise#morning
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

Enough of the drama of the world, time for some lovely news:

"Man gets trapped in #LakeMichigan quicksand, emerges with a girlfriend"

Mitchell O'Brien and Breanne Sika were on their 2nd date

When she called emergency services for help further down the beach for a better signal, she referred to him as her boyfriend for the 1st time. At the same time, he was calling emergency services while stuck in quicksand, and he referred to her as his girlfriend for the 1st time

detroitnews.com/story/news/loc

Mitchell O'Brien, stuck in quicksand
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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

I love these sorts of days, when a light wind comes from the East. It blows the hazy warm top layer full of microplankton off and the cold diamond-clear layer comes all the way in to shore, nearly flat.

(Of course, in THIS time of year, it's still unswimmably cold.)

mastodon.social/@livelakemichi

MastodonLake Michigan! Live! (@livelakemichigan@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Current* conditions near Empire, MI:
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Brian Jopek

Sunrise at a very rough looking Chicago Harbor Light on Lake Michigan, 9 April, 2025. Photo by Barry Butler Photography.
#LighthousesOfMastodon
#GreatLakes
#LakeMichigan

“An effort is underway by the 501c(3) non-profit group Friends of Chicago Harbor Lighthouse to begin a much needed restoration of this iconic structure on the Chicago skyline. We wish them success: SaveTheLighthouse.org” - Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association

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