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A solution lake is a lake occupying a basin formed by surface dissolution of bedrock. In areas underlain by soluble bedrock, its solution by precipitation and ...
A volcanogenic lake is a lake formed as a result of volcanic activity. [1] They are generally a body of water inside an inactive volcanic crater ( crater lakes ) but can also be large volumes of molten lava within an active volcanic crater ( lava lakes ) and waterbodies constrained by lava flows, pyroclastic flows or lahars in valley systems. [ 2 ]
The crater lake of Mount Rinjani, Indonesia Lake Yeak Laom, Cambodia Baengnokdam crater lake of Hanla Mountain in winter, South Korea. A volcanic crater lake is a lake in a crater that was formed by explosive activity or a collapse during a volcanic eruption.
The lake partly fills a 2,148-foot-deep (655 m) caldera [3] that was formed around 7,700 (± 150) years ago [4] by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. No rivers flow into or out of the lake; the evaporation is compensated for by rain and snowfall at a rate such that the total amount of water is replaced every 150 years. [5]
Oxbow lake: a U-shaped lake formed when a wide meander from the mainstem of a river is cut off to create a lake. Phytotelma: a small, discrete body of water held by some plants. Plunge pool: a depression at the base of a waterfall. Pool: various small bodies of water such as a swimming pool, reflecting pool, pond, or puddle. Pond
Kettle lake: Depression, formed by a block of ice separated from the main glacier, in which the lake forms; Tarn: A lake formed in a cirque by overdeepening; Paternoster lake: A series of lakes in a glacial valley, formed when a stream is dammed by successive recessional moraines left by an advancing or retreating glacier; Glacial lake: A lake ...
Unraveling where life on Earth began involves figuring out where the molecules that make up life come from. A shallow, salty body of water could hold answers.
Lake Algonquin is an example of a proglacial lake that existed in east-central North America at the time of the last ice age. Parts of the former lake are now Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and inland portions of northern Michigan. [1] Examples in Great Britain include Lake Lapworth, Lake Harrison and Lake Pickering.