Lake Ontario's Rochester Basin—the lake's deepest point at 802 feet (244 m)—has a bottom strongly marked by glaciation. The video interprets elongated scour features as evidence of massive flows in both northeast and southwest directions and argues that water ultimately drained north. It also proposes an impact point at the basin center, but the cited results support the basin's depth and glacial scouring, not the catastrophic-flow or impact interpretations.
Video advances catastrophic-flow and impact hypotheses for Lake Ontario basin
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Key facts
- The Rochester Basin is Lake Ontario's deepest point, at 802 feet (244 m), not approximately 500 feet.
- The Rochester Basin's bottom is strongly marked by glaciation.
- The video interprets elongated features as evidence of large flows in both northeast and southwest directions and argues that water ultimately drained north.
- The video proposes an impact point at the basin center as a hypothesis; the cited results do not establish it.
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Rochester Basin - Grokipediagrokipedia.com
The basin reaches depths of 244 meters below sea level, making it the deepest feature in Lake Ontario, and its formation reflects intense glacial overdeepening ...
Lake Ontario - National Museum of the Great Lakesnmgl.org
Lake Ontario, known as the Lower Lake, sits below the 380 foot escarpment that creates Niagara Falls.
Rochester Basin - Bathymetry of Lake Ontario - NOAAngdc.noaa.gov
Great Lakes Data Rescue Project - Lake Ontario Bathymetry NOAA. Rochester Basin. Click on the image above for an expanded view (approximately 5,028 K).
Geomorphology - Bathymetry of Lake Ontario - NOAAngdc.noaa.gov
A series of distinct NE-SW ridges occupy the floor of Lake Ontario's deepest basin, the Rochester Basin. These ridges, having a relief of 15-25 meters and a ...
Rochester Basin - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
The Rochester Basin, at 802 feet (244 m), is the deepest part of Lake Ontario. The lake bottom of the Rochester Basin is strongly marked by glaciation, ...
Lake Ontarioglc.org
Lake Ontario is similar to Lake Erie in length and breadth (193 miles by 53 miles). Yet with its greater average depth (approximately 283 feet), Lake Ontario ...
Lake Ontariogreatlakes.guide
Lake Ontario is an ecological wonder. Every drop of water within the Great Lakes basin flows through Lake Ontario. Being so close to the Atlantic Ocean ...
Great Lake Ontario | City of Rochester, New Yorkcityofrochester.gov
The City of Rochester sits on the southern shore of mighty Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes, and the fourteenth largest lake in the world.
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