Northwest Ohio is the largest flat area in the eastern half of the U.S. It was caused to be even flatter when the lake covered the land and sediments from the lake filled in any bumps or holes that may have been left. Northwest Ohio was gently rolling before the glacier arrived, it was flatter after the glacial ice scraped the surface. During the drainage of this glacial lake covering northwest Ohio is when the Niagara gorge and Niagara Falls were created. In a very short period of time (geologically speaking) Lake Erigans was emptied. As the glaciers retreated north into Canada, the drainage to the north was uncovered and again able to flow. Lake, Lake Erigans, was created in this area as the water had no place to go with the Erigans drainage system still covered in ice to the north. Here in Wood County at one time there was ice sitting on top of the land a mile thick. A million years ago the glaciers came south and covered northwest Ohio including the Erigans River draining to the north. The land was not flat, but had gentle hills. The story begins two million years ago long before white man found the Americas, long before Native Americans walked North America, in Northwest Ohio, there was a great river that flowed north. Associated Press photo by EyePressĬalifornia's ghost lands: Between rainstorms, fog settles in the Kern River Canyon near Bakersfield.No story concerning an historic farm in Wood County should begin without sharing with the reader some background of the condition of the land before the white settlers came to tame it. Two workers reportedly were injured in the blast. Grand Forks Herald photo by John Stennes via Associated PressĬhinese firefighters battle a blaze raging after an explosion at a chemical plant in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. Water, water, everywhere: The flooding Red River in Grand Forks, N.D., turns a farm into an island.

The Town Talk photo by Leandro Huebner via Associated Press Ball residents have been on edge since convicted murderer and martial arts expert Richard Lee McNair escaped from the federal pen at Pollock. Killer on the loose: Armed with his rifle, Skip Sherlock keeps lookout as he waits for a school bus to unload his nieces and nephews in Ball, La. Could someone please call the animal hospital? News Virginian photo by Rosanne Weber via Associated Press But the hole in the fence in Stuarts Draft, Va., isn't always big enough.

Associated Press photo by Nati HarnikĬow catcher: The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Zoo staffers are raising the tiny ape because its 21-year-old mother showed little interest in the job. This nipple is broken! A month-old orangutan sucks futilely on a finger belonging to Henry Doorly Zoo director Dr. Las Cruces Sun-News photo by Norm Dettlaff via Associated Press The school was hosting Project Sentry, an initiative of the federal Project Safe Neighborhood program that exposes students to the realities of gun violence. Gruesome lesson: Photos of shotgun wounds have the intended effect on seventh-graders Kaitlyn Carter (left) and Sallie McLees at Sierra Middle School in Las Cruces, N.M. We're pretty sure rugger Rocky Elsom was trying to strip the ball - not Mose Tuiali - during a match in Christchurch, New Zealand. Bakersfield Californian photo by Casey Christie Associated Press photo by Fernando Vergaraīright-eyed and bushy-tailed: A family outing in Bakersfield's Hart Park can wait until cat reconnaissance is complete. She's one of about 80 members of the indigenous tribe displaced from their jungle home by FARC rebels. El Paso Times photo by Victor Calzada via Associated Pressįorehead fashion: A Nukak-Maku woman applies makeup at a makeshift camp near the village of Agua Bonita, southern Colombia. Associated Press photo by Dave Thompsonįringe benefit: Hairdresser Isaac Rocha of the Avida Salon in El Paso, Texas, gives Kaletia Roberts some tuft love. She ain't what she used to be: The best handicapping tips at the Grand National, the world's most grueling steeplechase at England's Aintree Racecourse, come straight from the horse's mouth. Nice job, Einstein: Ten-year-old Allyson Flores finds a teammate's answer less than satisfactory at the Wood County Elementary School Quiz Bowl in Jerry City, Ohio.

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