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Lake Chad (Arabic: بحيرة تشاد, Kanuri: Sádǝ, French: Lac Tchad) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area in excess of 1,000,000 km 2 (390,000 sq mi).
As the Sahara dried out over the last few thousand years, Mega-Lake Chad receded to the current position of Lake Chad in the south-west corner of Chad. As the waters receded, the silts and sediments resting on the lakebed, which included fossilized diatoms, were left to dry in the scorching sun, forming a layer of fine dust.
Chad died in a motorcycle accident in 1985. He was 19 years old. “My Christian faith is probably the single thing that got me through this,” Woolery told PEOPLE in 1997 of Chad’s death.
Lake Chad is the remnant of a former inland sea, paleolake Mega-Chad, which existed during the African humid period. At its largest extent, sometime before 5000 BCE, Lake Mega-Chad was the largest of four Saharan paleolakes, and is estimated to have covered an area of 350,000 km 2. [38] The Sahara pump theory describes this cycle.
Chad McQueen, the son of the late Steve McQueen who followed in his father’s footsteps and developed an acting career of his own, has died. He was 63. He was 63. The Karate Kid star’s death on ...
Chad McQueen, the son of the late racing and acting legend Steve McQueen, has died in California. He was 63. He was 63. The Karate Kid actor and race car driver died Wednesday, Sept. 11, in Palm ...
Mega-Chad - A parody of Chad Applewhite who appears in Big Nate in the Zone and Big Nate Lives it Up as Ultra Nate's sidekick. Mega-Chad was in the comic strip only for a May 2016 arc where Nate and Teddy make their own superhero film starring Chad. Captain Frantastic and Teddy Titan are parodies of Teddy and Francis. They are sidekicks for ...
Tammy died ‘at the hands of another and died of asphyxiation,’ prosecutors said during opening statements in Lori Vallow’s murder trial Lori Vallow trial hears how Chad Daybell’s first ...