Lakes: Their Birth, Life, and Death John Richard Saylor

Lakes : Their Birth, Life, and Death John Richard Saylor – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781643260488,1643260480,9781643261676

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• ISBN 13:9781643261676
  
• Author: John Richard Saylor

Lakes is an illuminating tour through the most fascinating lakes around the world. Whether it’s Lake Vostok, located more than two miles beneath the surface of Antarctica, whose water was last exposed to the atmosphere perhaps a million years ago; Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, the world’s deepest and oldest lake formed by a rift in the earth’s crust; or Lake Nyos, the so-called Killer Lake that exploded in 1986, resulting in hundreds of deaths, Saylor reveals to us the wonder that exists in lakes found throughout the world. Along the way we learn all the many forms that lakes take—how they come to be and how they feed and support ecosystems—and what happens when lakes vanish.

Table contents:

Part I Birth

1 Glaciers The Master Creator

2 Volcanic Lakes An Inherited Violence

3 DAMS Natural and Manmade

4 The Carolina Bays

5 Oriented Lakes

6 Subglacial Lakes

7 Salt Lakes

Part II Life

8 Lake Overturning

9 Dissolved Gas Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide

10 Ice

11 Surface Tension

12 Evaporation

Part III Death

13 Death by Human

14 Tectonics

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