Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1900 — Water Piled in Ridges. [ARTICLE]

Water Piled in Ridges.

The coast and geodetic survey has recently completed some very careful leveling operations which show that the surface of the Gulf of Mexico lies perceptibly higher than that of the Atlantic Ocean. Between the surface of the ocean at St. Augustine, on the eastern shore of Florida, and the surface of the gulf at Cedar Keys, on the western shore, there is a mean difference in level of nine-tenths of a foot. This is considered to be sufficient to account for the outpouring current of the Gulf stream, which in the narrower part of the Strait of Florida touches bottom. The surplus of water which raises the Gulf above the level of the ocean is apparently received through the Yucatan channel, being driven In by the prevailing equatorial currents from the east.