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DaytonaDemon t1_jdngj33 wrote

14,000 years ago, this would've been correct.

>WALRUS TUSK TURNS UP IN ORONO
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>About 25,000 years ago when the state was covered during the ice age, the weight of the ice compressed the ground underneath. The ice receded about 14,000 years ago, and the ocean flooded the area up to what is now Medway.
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>“The walruses would probably have been living on the ice margins the way they do now in the Arctic,” Jacobson said. “That walrus either died and ended up deposited there, or died on ice and ended up dropping into the water. It had to be an environment the walruses live in, and that would have been the only time [in what is now Maine].”
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>Spiess agreed with Jacobson that walruses were in Maine as the ice age was waning.

Link.

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xach t1_jdmxlt6 wrote

There used to be a regular column in the Bangor Daily News that gave a star map and some info about interesting space events for the week or month. I believe it was from a local astronomer, not some syndicated thing.

So...subscribe to newspapers.com, look up those columns, and determine which ones apply to the current date and time.

Easy!

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jwalker98 t1_jdmxlfs wrote

Reply to Gem museum by seeclick8

It's no joke. This is a Smithsonian quality museum. Check out bethelmaine.com for more things to do in the area. A lot of people don't realize how sought after Western Maine minerals are globally.

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