Giant Bodies of Water in North America that Used To Exist 

What goes away tends to come back eventually (and is called a flood) wink 😉wink....

Mexico City has some major issues with their dried lake bed right now. It turns out that the bottom of a lake isn't the best place to build the largest city in the western hemisphere because the ground is incredibly soft, leading buildings beginning to sink by multiple meters.

They didn't

Imagine we could walk to England a few thousand years ago, but now we have first class waterfront! Everything has an end, but a sausage has two...

Far from a worthless desert. It's now the most productive bread basket on the planet. The great plains.

Its not that hard to imagine,look at lake mead.

...bad long term investment?....:P

I don't consider that desert worthless at all

It actually would have been under 300 to 600 feet of water, from ground level. There are iceberg scours all around Winnipeg. Look it up. Manitoba iceberg scours.

Oh for sure Winnipeg is very low elevation because of it and the Manitoba escarpment and the Saskatchewan plain are the marks the recession points along with the Pembina hills !

And it’s eastern border would have been the Precambrian shield

I grew up in Fargo and I remember driving around in the country once and seeing what was once obviously the shoreline of the lake, it was pretty cool.

Undoubtedly there would be different nation states. Perhaps Laramidia would be colonized by Asian peoples. I wonder, which would have a better economy in our modern world? What would language be like? Wars?

The "large body of water dividing the continent" was 70 million years ago. There were no native tribes then. Hell, that was before the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.

Not to pick bones, but lake Agassi was already a true inland seas. As the video mentions, frequently throughout its existance, it was larger than the Caspian Sea which is also a true inland sea.

@@scottanderson691 an inland sea is typically endorrheic as well though, was lake agassiz a salt water lake?

They haven't move. They still exist and known as Nahuatl. Mexican culture is a mixture of Nahuatl and Iberian culture. Unfortunately for the lake bed, the Spanish people decided to drain the lake rather than continue Aztec engineering.

It's why there's oil in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana ....

Don't worry. In the future, the water will return to those areas.

I will go with what the experts say on this one, boss

Trust the tyranny. Sorry i mean science

There's an interesting explanation for the prevalence of flood myths! It's because civilizations always formed around rivers that frequently flooded because it created the best environment for farming which is what every civilization needed to be sustainable

@@calebarsenault382 there is far more to the universal flood than flooding.

It's not based in Noah or some biblical myth. It's because every culture has encountered the forces of rising tides and water as well as the sinking and rising of land. Doggerland and Hy brasil are chief examples in this.

@@Benjamin-wi3wt they experienced it or heard stories from the refugees that suddenly appeared in the area telling tales of an angry sea flooding their old home.

@@Adiscretefirm yes the Celtic people are said to have come from Atlantis,as well as a few African pygmy's which eventually surfaced in the belief in the folk pagan spirit called the brownies.

I'm looking it up myself

Yes!!!! The 9ft caught me off guard

that would be beautiful

This may seem like a good idea at first, but I’m pretty sure that this would have such a massive impact that something is almost guaranteed to go catastrophically wrong.

@@michaelkaminski1166 quite possibly. But this is something that could be pretty well simulated with the right computer program. Then at least we’d know a rough idea of what the risks would be, or if they’d be worth the taking.

@@michaellutes1057 salt water seeping into the ground water and aquifers would quite literally kill all the flora and fauna in the entire region. not even to mention that when the water evaporates, youd have a huge extremely salty lake comparable to the dead sea that nothing can live in. if you want to get a concrete example of what happens when you turn a sweet water area into a salt water area, or the other way around, well, look no further than the Dutch. weve been there, done that. for example turning the southern sea into a brackish lake has killed all the marine life in the area and biodiversity still hasnt recovered fully a century later. turning a sweet water area into a salt water area is even worse. it kills off all the plants both underwater and on land, and then all the animals starve, and then you have to go in and artificially plant stuff that can grow on salty ground and introduce completely different species of animals. doing this to an area the size of the rocky mountains would be the largest ecological disaster on the planet.

If you look to your east. You can see the lake reforming in corcoran. Im planning on going fishing there in the summer

By realtors? Yah, like that is going to happen.

@@mpetersen6 which is why thousands of homes will always sink. It should be illegal

Pass me the addy. 😡

Paleozoic (541 to 252 million years ago) During the Paleozoic, shallow inland seas spread across the interior of Laurentia (ancient North America), covering North America's Precambrian shield. Even the high areas of northwestern Texas and the Ozark Mountains of Missouri were occasionally underwater.

And also, how many complete resets have modern humans witnessed?

Probably not a whole lot, considering that even the Aztecs and Incas, the most advanced civilizations in the Americas, were technologically behind most Old World societies. They didn't even have the wheel...

​@johngalt136 Enough to have "myths" survive as stories such as Ragnarok, an accurate account of a solar micronova. Cavenen stories and underground dwellìng places still exist in legend and reality. Men stealing women, which still happens to this day. Our weather was and is still heavily influenced by the Sun. Ancient people knew this. Sun worship was practiced for this reason. The Sun has control over life and death; a very powerful God or Goddess, depending on the culture. Moany people are aware that the Great Flood happened worldwide and will occur again. Our myopic scientists, limited by their specialities (mainly archeologists) miss facts obvious to geologists. Discoveries thàt don't match the latest narrative are squashed or hidden away. Academia has gotten too big for it's britches! I mourn my wasted time in school learning garbage tha never prepaŕed me for reality. We'd have been better served playing the game 'Risk' or 'Monopoly' for an hour, or plant identification, among other things. . At 66 yrs old, I've always learned better by choice, necessity and appreciation, over what nutcases THINK is good for any age group. Children are ill-suited to sit and listen. Any person who has not created and raised a child past puberty belongs as a Principle or on a schoolboard. Non-parents are idiotsfor the most part, living in fantasy land. Kudos to anyone who has read this far. Thank you. I felt a sudden need to rant at 2:30am. For Sun's sake, give tweens and teens places to work and safely socialize! It's important at that age! Give them constructive group projects in natural surroundings rather than the streets or the internet. Fini.

Yea sad how many died and stupid to build in a lake bed, same with lake Tulare in California

Europeans conquered simple cavemen. No more complicated than that.

Not proven.

@@SueFerreira75 you can't explain the massive amounts of meltwater floods in the Missoula valley/cascadia, along the entire great lakes icesheet edge/drumlin fields, or even the river systems like the minnesota etc. Explain that

I caught that!

It was covered.