Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — Rivers Deeper Than Ocean. [ARTICLE]

Rivers Deeper Than Ocean.

Geologists have discovered a number of sub-oceanic canyons, or drowned rivers, along the east coast of the United States. Both the Hudson and Delaware rivers are in this class, as well as Chesapeake bay. The St. rence river, in Canada, and the Congo, in Africa, are also deeper, near their mouths, than the ocean. The Hudson river, worn by the flowing stream, is considerably deeper than the offshore part of the Atlantic. It is flooded by the intruding ocean. The bay and lower river compose w’hat would be called in Norseland a fiord. The whole coast of the United States has sunk a good deal in the course of ages,* owing to the enormous weight of material brought down by the rivers and deposited out in the ocean off shore. But geologists say that the melting of glaciers has largely to do wltii the phenomenon.