Why Doesn't Niagara Falls Run Out of Water?
Niagara Falls is truly amazing. A
whopping 99,653,760,000 tons of water plummet 167 feet at a rate of 3,160 tons
of water a second. At that rate, it would take less than 20 minutes to submerge
a football stadium. Where does all that water come from? And more importantly,
why doesn’t it run out?
The Niagara River shapes into the Niagara
Falls when it encounters a sharp break in elevation. The river gets perennial
water supply from a group of precious water bodies, including Lake Michigan,
Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Erie. Around 12,000 years
back, the 2-3-kilometer-thick sheet of ice covering the region, known as the Wisconsin
Glacier, melted and formed these water bodies. Water has always plentiful
in the area, aided by the copious amount of rainfall and melting snow.
Unlike other extinct and seasonal
rivers on earth, we can expect Niagara River and the Falls to continue to
enrich our planet and pique our imagination.
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