Horseshoe Falls at Niagara
by Ginger Wakem
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Horseshoe Falls at Niagara
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Ginger Wakem
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Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a vertical drop of more than 165 feet (50 m). Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America, as measured by vertical height and also by flow rate.[3] The falls are located 17 miles (27 km) north-northwest of Buffalo, New York and 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Toronto, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.
Niagara Falls were formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved a path through the Niagara Escarpment en route to the Atlantic Ocean. While not exceptionally high, the Niagara Falls are very wide. More than six million cubic feet (168,000 m3) of water falls over the crest line every minute in high flow,[4] and almost four million cubic feet (110,000 m3) on average.
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November 7th, 2015
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Sandi OReilly
Fabulous capture, Ginger!!! F/L
Ginger Wakem replied:
Thank you Sandi! My first and second visit were 43 years apart. It was amazing to see all the changes that have occurred surrounding the falls but that the falls are still a wonder of the world.