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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 The St. Lawrence Seaway, which was created to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the five inland seas, did not conquer nature, but instead unleashed it in the form of an ecological catastrophe.
#2 The Mediterranean Sea was dry for hundreds of thousands of years, but around 5. 3 million years ago, it was flooded by the Atlantic Ocean. The Black Sea was isolated from the Mediterranean...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2017]
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A landmark work of science, history and reporting on the past, present and imperiled future of the Great Lakes.--The Death and Life of the Great LakesFor thousands of years the pristine Great Lakes were separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the roaring Niagara Falls and from the Mississippi River basin by a "sub-continental divide. "Beginning in the late 1800s, these barriers were circumvented to attract oceangoing freighters from the Atlantic and...