Lakes thread

[Hippasus]

I just binge-watched some nature videos and wanted to share a few highlights. Feel free to post information, videos, etc. of these or other lakes if you think they are of interest.

List of lakes by volume - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Surface area comparisons of the Earth's lakes:

The World’s 25 Largest Lakes, Side by Side

This unique map graphic uses the Great Lakes region as a point of comparison for the top 25 largest lakes in the world.

www.visualcapitalist.com

The following are ranked by greatest water volume.

1. Caspian Sea (central Eurasia)

This is the largest lake in the world by volume and surface area. It is largely formed by or is an endoheic basin. This means that it has disproportionally little outflow and is formed on a basin.



2. Lake Baikal (central Russia)

This is an astoundingly deep lake. Very foreboding. It was formed by plate tectonics.



3. Lake Tanganyika (central Africa)

This lake is practically endoheic, and like the above lakes, faces significant ecological issues.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133023001946

Click to read more...

 

[JMCx4]

All that talk about water ... excuse me while I relieve myself ...

 

[Unholy Diver]

This sent me down a rabbit hole right before what was supposed to be bedtime last night, eventually leading me to the Aral Sea, once the 4th largest lake on Earth as recently as the 1960's and it has now shrunk to the point of being outside the top 50

Aral Sea | Description, History, Map, Shrinking, & Facts | Britannica

Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. It was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water but has shrunk remarkably because of the diversion of its sources of inflowing water for irrigation beginning in the second half of the 20th century.

www.britannica.com

The Shrinking Aral Sea: A Cascading Environmental Disaster | Geopolitical Monitor

There is now desert where much of the world’s fourth-largest lake used to be, and the economic, health, and environmental consequences for peoples living near the lake are enormous.

www.geopoliticalmonitor.com