Acadia's Great Head Cliff
The resilient land that makes up Acadia National Park began rising after glaciers retreated north around 15,000 years ago. The level of the sea worldwide rose c...
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The resilient land that makes up Acadia National Park began rising after glaciers retreated north around 15,000 years ago. The level of the sea worldwide rose close to its present height as the ice sheets melted. Although this sea level rise had leveled off to less than an inch everyone one hundred years, today's oceans rise at a rate of nearly an inch per decade. The bedrock gave substance and the glaciers gave character, but without the sea, Acadia would be like a gem without a setting. Each headland, bay, and inlet reveals the majestic interface between sea and land.
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