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Kelleys Island is both a village in Erie County, Ohio, and the island which it fully occupies in Lake Erie.The island has a total area of 4.41 square miles (11.42 km 2) and was formed by glacial action on limestone and dolomite.
The Lake Erie Islands are geologically part of the Silurian Columbus Limestone. When the Pleistocene ice sheets carved out the basin of modern-day Lake Erie, these hard rocks proved more resistant to erosion than the shales in the east, and as a result, Lake Erie's western end is much shallower than the basins in the east, so that the islands ...
Location of Rattlesnake Island in the Bass Islands. Rattlesnake Island is an 85-acre (34 ha) island located in Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, in Ottawa County. It is one of several islands known as the Lake Erie Islands.
The largest known seiche on Lake Erie was a 22-foot event that killed 77 people and dammed Niagara Falls with ice, temporarily stopping the waterfall from flowing. More recently, a 16-foot seiche ...
The lake-effect snowfall totals since Friday are expected to reach 4 feet to 6 feet across much of Erie County by the time the warning ends. The winter storm watch could mean another foot of snow ...
Storm Langholff, left, and Johnathan Hartwig, along with their crew, all from Fort Adkinson, Wisconsin, clean their morning catch of walleye, at Shatto's Fish Cleaning near Oak Harbor.
Lake Erie has a lake retention time of 2.6 years, [24] the shortest of all the Great Lakes. [25] The lake's surface area is 9,910 square miles (25,667 km 2). [7] [26] Lake Erie's water level fluctuates with the seasons as in the other Great Lakes. Generally, the lowest levels are in January and February and the highest in June or July, although ...
The sun sets on Lake Erie as a beach concert winds down at Presque Isle State Park in Erie County. The sunsets, beaches and boating are three things that make Lake Erie popular in Pennsylvania.