Saturday, July 5, 2008

Striking Niagara Falls


The Niagara River was said to be the inheritance of the last Ice Age. During the past 18, 000 years, the southern part of Ontario has been dominated with ice sheets of about 2-3 kilometers thick. As the time goes on, the ice melted northward in which it bursts out massive amount of meltwater into these basins.

As the River spanning from the Canadian-United States International Border as well as the Province of Ontario and the State of the New York, there were about 12 million tourists come to visit the river because of its captivating and striking scenery. People in the United States have been tried to control the current flow of this massive water flows, however they failed to do it, even the modern engineers have failed. And most of the water nowadays is supplied through underground channels and pipes towards the nearby electric power stations. Today, the continuous rushing of tourists coming in here has been increased all year round to witness this incredible panoramic scenery in the United States.