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| − | '''Loch Ness''' is the largest lake in [[Great Britain]]. It is 23 miles long, one mile wide, and almost 900 feet deep in places thus making a full search of the lake unfeasible. | + | '''Loch Ness''' is the largest lake in [[Great Britain]]. It is 23 miles long, one mile wide, and almost 900 feet deep in places thus making a full search of the lake unfeasible. Geologist believe that the present day Loch Ness dates from the end of the [[Ice Age]]<ref>According to secular scientists, this lasted 20,000 years and finished 10,000 years ago, and was the most recent of several. According to creationary scientists, the Ice Age lasted a few hundred years, and occurred in the centuries following [[Great Flood|Noah's Flood]]</ref>. During the ice age, the Great Glen was occupied by a huge glacier which filled the valley above the level of the present watershed, and extended into the Moray Firth. This glacier found the shattered rock along the fault easy to erode, which accounts for the great depth of Loch Ness to 600 feet below sea-level. The underwater perimeter of the lake is glacially smoothed and very steep. Above Foyers Bay at the deepest section, there is 500 feet of water only 60 feet out from the bank. Loch Ness is most famous for the mythical creature known as the [[Loch Ness Monster]] (or "Nessie") which is said to inhabit the loch. Recently, a news team from the [[British]] Channel 5 created an animatronic model of Nessie, and placed it in the water. That very same day, huge amounts of sightings were reported, in the same area where the model was roaming.<ref>http://www.crawley-creatures.com/recent/lucy.htm</ref> |
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Revision as of 14:49, April 26, 2007
Loch Ness is the largest lake in Great Britain. It is 23 miles long, one mile wide, and almost 900 feet deep in places thus making a full search of the lake unfeasible. Geologist believe that the present day Loch Ness dates from the end of the Ice Age[1]. During the ice age, the Great Glen was occupied by a huge glacier which filled the valley above the level of the present watershed, and extended into the Moray Firth. This glacier found the shattered rock along the fault easy to erode, which accounts for the great depth of Loch Ness to 600 feet below sea-level. The underwater perimeter of the lake is glacially smoothed and very steep. Above Foyers Bay at the deepest section, there is 500 feet of water only 60 feet out from the bank. Loch Ness is most famous for the mythical creature known as the Loch Ness Monster (or "Nessie") which is said to inhabit the loch. Recently, a news team from the British Channel 5 created an animatronic model of Nessie, and placed it in the water. That very same day, huge amounts of sightings were reported, in the same area where the model was roaming.[2]
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- ↑ According to secular scientists, this lasted 20,000 years and finished 10,000 years ago, and was the most recent of several. According to creationary scientists, the Ice Age lasted a few hundred years, and occurred in the centuries following Noah's Flood
- ↑ http://www.crawley-creatures.com/recent/lucy.htm