Word: molengraaff
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...Molengraaff River. Carved in the sea floor off the Hudson, Delaware and Congo Rivers are huge canyons whose beds lie 7,500 to 10,000 ft. below sea level. How were they formed? Possibly by ancient rivers, when the seas were far below their present level. Geologists know that during the Ice Age, which began to recede some 20,000 years ago, the ocean level was lower than it is now, because great masses of water were locked up in the land glaciers. But the continents could hardly have stored water masses tremendous enough to have raised the sea level...
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