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(11) Waterfall II: Niagara Falls (1920x1088, 24fps) Free Creative Commons YouTube Stock Footage - YouTube

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Numerous objects, both natural and artificial, have gone over the Niagara Falls. These events have been the result of both stunts and accidents, some of which have resulted in fatalities. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was Annie Edson Taylor, who went over the falls in a barrel in 1901.

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Where is Niagara Falls? Niagara Falls is located on the Niagara River and serves as an international border between the USA and Canada.

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Niagara Falls was formed starting more than 12,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age when large torrents of water were released from the melting ice, draining into the Niagara River. The water plunged over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment – to what is now known as Lewiston, NY.

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An area 12,300 years in the making, Niagara Falls is a natural wonder unlike any other. The history of Niagara Falls goes back thousands of years, to the Ice Age, when large torrents of water were released from the melting ice, draining into what is now known as the Niagara River.

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The deepest section in the Niagara River is just below the falls. It is so deep that it equals the height of the falls above: 52 metres (170 ft.) The Upper Niagara River extends 35 kilometres (22 mi.) from Lake Erie to the Cascade Rapids, which begin 1 kilometre (0.6 mi.) upstream from the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.

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where does the light from niagara falls come from

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Special lights are housed in the Illumination Tower, next to Queen Victoria Place; on the roof of Table Rock Centre, at the brink of the Horseshoe Falls; and deep in the Niagara Gorge, across from the American Falls.

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Special lights are housed in the Illumination Tower, next to Queen Victoria Place; on the roof of Table Rock Centre, at the brink of the Horseshoe Falls; and deep in the Niagara Gorge, across from the American Falls.

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Niagara Falls Geological History | Geography of the Niagara Area - Niagara Falls Canada & USA

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Niagara Falls Geological History | Geography of the Niagara Area - Niagara Falls Canada & USA

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The Niagara Region is located on a portion of a great plain which runs east to west from the northern Laurentian Highlands (Canadian Shield) approximately 161 kilometres north of Toronto, Ontario to the southern Allegheny Plateau which form the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains.

The Niagara land mass extends 100 kilometres, both east and west from the Niagara River.

This plain is a small part of the Great Lakes low lands in which Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario lie.

Climate in Niagara has been similar to the current weather patterns for the past 5,000 years. These weather patterns are:

In the spring season, the daily high temperatures range from 5° to 19° degrees Celsius. Nightly temperatures range from -3° to 8° degrees Celsius. Snowfall season usually ends by mid-April. Lake Erie ice and water temperature may effect surrounding land mass with cooler than normal breezes. Mixed weather patterns prevail.

In the summer season, the daily high temperatures range from 25° to 21° degrees Celsius (75º to 81° degrees Fahrenheit ). Nightly temperatures range from 14° to 17° degrees Celsius (57° to 63° degrees Fahrenheit). Weather is generally bright and sunny. Rain storms, which are seldom severe, are moderated by nearby Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. In summer, lake waters are normally cooler than air temperature. Lake Erie's water temperature normally ranges from 22° to 25° degrees Celsius (73° to 77° degrees Fahrenheit). Cooling lake breezes are often a relief from sometimes hot and humid weather experienced in summer.

In the autumn season, the daily high temperatures range from 22° to 8° degrees Celsius (72° to 46° degrees Fahrenheit). Nightly temperatures range from 13° to 1° degrees Celsius (55° to 34° degrees Fahrenheit). It is usually unlikely for snow prior to the end of October. First killing frost and/or snowfall is expected by late October or early November. Mixed weather patterns prevail.

In the winter season, the daily high temperatures in range from 2° to -0.9° degrees Celsius (36° to 30° degrees Fahrenheit). Nightly temperatures range from -4.5° to -8.2° degrees Celsius (24° to 17° degrees Fahrenheit). Arctic high pressure generally dominates during the winter months bringing cold and clear days. Snow storms are infrequent, which leads the moderate snow. Lake effect snowfalls are mainly localized to areas near Buffalo and southward. When Lake Erie completely freezes over, usually during extended cold weather this eliminates the lake effect snow.

Today the Great Lakes hold twenty percent of the worlds fresh water supply. Ninety-nine (99%) percent of this water is of glacial origin.

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Niagara Falls Geological History | Geography of the Niagara Area - Niagara Falls Canada & USA

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The Niagara Region is located on a portion of a great plain which runs east to west from the northern Laurentian Highlands (Canadian Shield) approximately 161 kilometres north of Toronto, Ontario to the southern Allegheny Plateau which form the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains.

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It is adjacent to the Niagara River, across from the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and named after the famed Niagara Falls which they share. The city is within the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Western New York region.

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Niagara Falls is a name used to describe threewaterfalls that lie on the Niagara River. They are, fromlargest to smallest, the Horseshoe Falls, the AmericanFalls, and the Bridal Veil Falls. They feature a totalvertical drop of 165 feet (50 meters).

The Niagara River forms part of the border betweenthe state of New York and the Canadian province ofOntario. The border was originally drawn in 1819. Buterosion has changed the falls since then. The exactmodern border is uncertain.

Niagara Falls is part of the Great Lakes chain. Waterflows along the river from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.The river is about 36 miles (60 kilometers) long. Itdrops a total of about 325 feet (100 meters). A littlemore than half of this total drop happens at NiagaraFalls. During periods of high flow, as much as 44million gallons (167 million liters) of water passes overthe falls each minute.

A pair of islands split the falls into three parts. GoatIsland stands between the Bridal Veil Falls and theHorseshoe Falls. Goat Island can be reached onlyfrom the New York side. No one lives on the island,but it is a popular tourist attraction. It offers visitorssome of the most beautiful views of the falls. Thesmaller Luna Island stands between the AmericanFalls and Bridal Veil Falls. A bridge connects it to GoatIsland.

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Collectively they are called "Niagara Falls"

Categorized by these three names: American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Canadian Falls

American Falls & Bridal Veil Falls

Length of brink: 1060 feet /323.08 meters

Height: 176 feet / 53.6 meters (due to rocks at the base actual fall is 70 feet/ 21.3 meters)

Volume of water: 150,000 U.S. Gallons / 567,811 Liters per second

Actual amount varies, there are two hydroelectric plants which draw water into their reservoirs prior to the Falls. Their intake greatly affects the volume of water flowing over the falls.

The amount of water being siphoned away depends on two variables. The time of year and the time of the day. The flow is greatest over the Falls in the daytime during peak tourist season (June, July, and August). In the event of an emergency the flow can be somewhat reduced by the hydroelectric companies increasing their intake.

The Bridal Veil Falls is named for its appearance. It is located next to the American Falls and separated by a small piece of land called Luna Island.

Canadian "Horseshoe" Falls

Length of brink: 2600 feet / 792.4 meters

Height: 167 feet / 50.9 meters
Volume of water: 600,000 U.S. gallons / 2,271,247 liters per second

A Brief History of the Falls. Information below graciously provided courtesy of Niagara Parks
Ice Age History of the Niagara River and Whirlpool Rapids
The Niagara River as is the entire Great Lakes Basin of which the river is an integral part is a legacy of the last Ice Age. 18,000 years ago southern Ontario was covered by ice sheets 2-3 kilometers thick. As they advanced southward the ice sheets gouged out the basins of the Great Lakes. Then as they melted northward for the last time they released vast quantities of meltwater into these basins. Our water is "fossil water" less than one percent of it is renewable on an annual basis and the rest leftover from the ice sheets.

The Niagara Peninsula became free of the ice about 12,500 years ago. As the ice retreated northward its meltwaters began to flow down through what became Lake Erie, Niagara River and Lake Ontario down to the St. Lawrence River and finally, down to the sea. There were originally 5 spillways from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Eventually these were reduced to one, the original Niagara Falls, at Queenston-Lewiston. From here the Falls began its steady erosion through the bedrock.

However about 10,500 years ago through an interplay of geological effects including alternating retreats and re-advances of the ice and rebounding of the land when released from the intense pressure of the ice (isostatic rebound) this process was interrupted. The glacial meltwaters were rerouted through northern Ontario bypassing the southern route. For the next 5,000 years Lake Erie remained only half the size of today. The Niagara River was reduced to about 10% of its current flow and a much-reduced Falls stalled in the area of the Niagara Glen.

About 5,500 years ago the meltwaters were once again routed through southern Ontario, restoring the river and Falls to their full power. Then the Falls reached the Whirlpool.

It was a brief and violent encounter and a geological moment lasting only weeks, maybe even only days. In this moment the Falls of the youthful Niagara River intersected an old riverbed and one that had been buried and sealed during the last Ice Age. The Falls turned into this buried gorge and tore out the glacial debris that filled it and scoured the old river bottom clean. It was probably not a falls at all now but a huge churning rapids. When it was all over it left behind a 90-degree turn in the river we know today as the Whirlpool and North America's largest series of standing waves we know today as the Whirlpool Rapids.

The Falls then re-established at about the area of the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge upriver to our right and resumed carving its way through solid rock to its present location.

Straddling the Canadian-United States International Border and both in the Province of Ontario and the State of New York, Niagara Falls attracts some 12 Million tourists to her majestic awesome beauty each year.

The Niagara is a fairly young river and only 12,000 years old, a microsecond in geological time. The Niagara Escarpment which was created by erosion is much older. The glaciers pressed down on the land during the last ice age and laid down layers of sediment then the slow process of erosion of ice and water ate at the surface of the escarpment.
The mighty river plunges over a cliff of dolostone and shale. Niagara Falls is the second largest falls on the globe next to Victoria Falls in southern Africa.

One fifth of all the fresh water in the world lies in the four Upper Great Lakes-Michigan, Huron,Superior and Erie. All the outflow empties into the Niagara river and eventually cascades over the Falls.
At the bottom of the Falls the water travels 15 miles over many gorges until it reaches the fifth Great Lake-Ontario. The land between the lakes does not slope at an even grade, but forms a spectacular drop approximately the same height as a 20 story building and this is known as the "Niagara Escarpment" and two billion years ago it was buried under a blanket of ice.

As the years passed the process of erosion took place and five distinct 'gorges' were formed-Lewiston Brange Gorge, Old Narrow Gorge, Upper & Lower Great Gorges and the Whirlpool Narrow Gorge.

Approximately 500 years ago the river encountered an obstacle that caused it to split into two channels, thus Goat Island was formed named after John Stedman whose goat herds froze to death in the winter of 1780. This was the original sediment left from a vanished Lake Tonawanda (an Indian name).

On the eastern part of the island the American Falls took shape and the Horseshoe Falls is on the western side where the river angles some 90 degrees. The water flow on the American side of the Falls is much less in strength because of Goat Island whereas the Horseshoe Falls has no obstruction to divert it. It should be noted that a third much narrower falls exists. Over the years these falls have been called at different times; Luna Falls, Iris Falls and is currently named Bridal Veil Falls.

Man has not been able to completely control the flow of the water over the falls and even modern engineers have tried. Much of the water today is fed through underground channels and pipes to nearby hydro electric power stations.

Do the Falls Freeze over in the Winter?
Yes and No...... We'll try to explain
The tremendous volume of water never stops flowing. The falling water and mist create ice formations along the banks of the falls and river. This can result in mounds of ice as thick as fifty feet. If the winter is cold for long enough the ice will completely stretch across the river and form what is known as the "ice bridge". This ice bridge can extend for several miles down river until it reaches the area known as the lower rapids.

Until 1912 visitors were allowed to walk out on the ice bridge and view the Falls from below! February 24th of 1888 the local newspaper reported that at least 20,000 people watched or tobogganed on the ice. Shanties selling liquor, photographs and curiosities abounded. On February 4th 1912 the ice bridge broke up and three tourists lives were lost.

There can also be a great deal of "mini-icebergs" which flow down the Niagara River from frozen Lake Erie. The flow of ice has been reduced considerably by the yearly installation of the "ice-boom" on Lake Erie. The ice-boom is a long floating chain (2miles- 3.2 KM) of steel floats strung across the Niagara River from Buffalo New York to Fort Erie Ontario. It is set in place during the month of December and removed during the month of March or April. It is maintained by the New York State Power Authority. The ice boom helps prevent the ice from clogging the river and most importantly the hydroelectric companies water intakes.

Spring Ice flowing underneath the North Grand Island Bridge

HOWEVER.... The flow of water was stopped completely over both falls on March 29th 1848 due to an ice jam in the upper river for several hours. This is the only known time to have occurred. The Falls did not actually freeze over, but the flow was stopped to the point where people actually walked out and recovered artifacts from the riverbed!
Interesting facts about Niagara Falls
The flow over the American Falls was stopped completely for several months in 1969. The idea was to determine the feasibility of removing the large amount of loose rock from the base of the falls to enhance its appearance. In the end the final decision was that the expense would be too great.

The word "Niagara" is derived from the Iroquois Indian word "Onguiaahra" meaning "the strait"

There is an international boundary between the United States and Canada.

Before the invention of film tourists would sketch pictures of the Falls.

The flow was also halted over both falls on March 29th 1848 due to an ice jam in the upper river.

The movies Niagara and Superman were filmed in part at the Falls.

In the past fifteen years two daredevils lost their lives trying to conquer Niagara.

In the evenings intense spotlights bathe the falls with different shades of color.

The first person to go over the Falls in a barrel and survive was a 63 year old female schoolteacher.

High wire tightrope acts used to be performed across the river. Most notably was "Blondin" who once actually carried his manager across on his back and stopping midway to rest!

The Falls make a tremendous sound as the water goes over and lands at the bottom.

Twenty percent of the worlds freshwater lies in the Great Lakes and most flows over Niagara Falls.
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Collectively they are called "Niagara Falls" Categorized by these three names: American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Canadian Falls American Falls & Bridal Veil Falls Length of brink: 1060 feet /323.08 meters Height: 176 feet / 53.6 meters (due to rocks at the base actual fall is 70 feet/ 21.3 meters) Volume of water: 150,000 U.S.

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Comprised of three waterfalls — American Falls, Horseshoe Falls and Bridal Veil Falls — Niagara Falls water stems from the upper Great Lakes and the river is estimated to be 12,000 years old.

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Niagara Falls was formed starting more than 12,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age when large torrents of water were released from the melting ice, draining into the Niagara River. The water plunged over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment – to what is now known as Lewiston, NY.

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(11) The Amazing Niagara Falls at Night - YouTube

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(11) The Amazing Niagara Falls at Night - YouTube

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i learned the niagara falls glows in the dark

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(11) Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, Bridal Veil) in High Definition - YouTube

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(11) Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, Bridal Veil) in High Definition - YouTube

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i learned  that Niagara Falls is made up of 3 separate falls the horseshoe falls (or Canadian Falls), American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls.

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Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, Bridal Veil) in High Definition

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Where does all the water from Niagara Falls come from?

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Where does all the water from Niagara Falls come from?

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From the Niagara River, the water passes over the falls, before flowing around 23km (14 miles) north into the final of the Great Lakes; Lake Ontario. From here there is yet another river, the St. Lawrence, and then it's final resting place in the form of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Niagara Falls is the Second largest waterfall in the world and Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in the world

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i learned that in winter the falls freezes into ice

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Niagara Falls Is the New 8th Wonder of the World. We all know the world is a pretty amazing place with some spectacular sites, ancient and modern, manmade and natural. ... Then we have the seven natural wonders of the world. These include the Grand Canyon in the United States and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

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The fresh water that plunges over Niagara Falls drains approximately 684,000 square kilometres ( 264,00 square miles) from four Great Lakes-Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan and Erie. ... Another bit of trivia, One-fifth of the worlds surfacefresh water flows down the Niagara River.

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(11) AMAZING NIAGARA FALLS CLOSE UP - 5h - SOUNDS FOR SLEEP, RELAXATION, CONCENTRATION - YouTube

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(11) AMAZING NIAGARA FALLS CLOSE UP - 5h - SOUNDS FOR SLEEP, RELAXATION, CONCENTRATION - YouTube

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3,160 tons of water flows over Niagara Falls every second. This accounts for 75,750 gallons of water per second over the American and Bridal Veil Falls and 681,750 gallons per second over the Horseshoe Falls.

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AMAZING NIAGARA FALLS CLOSE UP - 5h - SOUNDS FOR SLEEP, RELAXATION, CONCENTRATION

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The famous Niagara Falls, found at the border of New York and Ontario. The falls is actually made up of three waterfalls: the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls. Niagara Falls is a geological wonder and one of the most famous waterfalls in the world.

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Niagara Falls is comprised of three waterfalls, from largest to smallest, the Horseshoe Falls (also known as the Canadian Falls), American Falls and Bridal VeilFalls. Niagara Falls' vertical height is over 176 feet in some sections. ... The water that flows over Niagara Falls is at 25-50% capacity at any given time.

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Niagara Falls' vertical height is over 176 feet in some sections.

The American and Bridal Veil Falls were turned off in 1969 by the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers to study the effects of erosion. There are plans to “turn off” the Falls again to rebuild two, 115-year-old bridges.

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Niagara Falls is a city on the Niagara River, in New York State. It’s known for the vast Niagara Falls, which straddle the Canadian border. In Niagara Falls State Park, the Observation Tower, at Prospect Point, juts out over Niagara Gorge for a view of all 3 waterfalls. Trails from the Niagara Gorge Discovery Center lead to other viewpoints. The Aquarium of Niagara is home to Humboldt penguins, seals and sea lions.

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Facts & Information About Niagara Falls | Niagara USA

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Niagara Falls State Park is the oldest state park in America, established in 1885 at the Niagara Reservation. Over 8 million visitors explore Niagara Falls State Park annually.

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Facts & Information About Niagara Falls | Niagara Falls USA

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Maybe you're brushing up on your Niagara Falls USA fun facts for the next quiz show on T.V., or completing a school project - or just wanting to learn more