Why is Lake Michigan so deep? Do bodies decompose in Lake Michigan?

Lake Michigan’s depth is as a result of the melting glaciers that filled the giant basin about 15,000 years ago, leading to a depth of 925 feet, a length of 307 miles, and a shoreline stretch of 1640 miles.

Also, a mile-thick slab of ice once covered the area.

Do bodies decompose in Lake Michigan?

Bodies do not decompose in Lake Michigan, but stay submerged because of its frigid temperatures.

The gases in the lake makes a body to “rise like a balloon.”

About Lake Michigan – Huron?

Lake Michigan–Huron is the body of water made up of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, connected by the open-water Straits of Mackinac, which is 295 feet (90 meters) deep and 5 miles (8.0 km) wide.

Huron and Michigan are regarded as one lake because the water flow through the straits maintains the general equilibrium of both water levels.

Although there is a general flow towards the east, but the water might move either way depending on the local environment.

Lake Michigan-Huron combined makes it the largest freshwater lake ever. When analyzed separately, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron is egarded as the largest of the Great Lakes.

However, the dimensions of the two lake basins has changed significantly since the last ice age.

What is currently Michigan-Huron had previously been divided into two or more lakes, and them sometimes, a portion of a single, deeper lake.