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1 Chapter 11 Origin and Ages of Lakes Glacial Tectonic Volcanic Riverine Coastal Solution Reservoir

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5 http://www.eeescience.utoledo.edu/Faculty/Gottgens/webpapers/Gottgens%20et%20al.%20WASP%201998.pdf

6 Glacial lakes Developed by an ice barrier –proglacial lakes) Developed by glacial erosion –Cirque and paternoster lakes, fjords, and kettle or pothole lakes Developed by glacial deposition (moraines) Developed by a mixture of glacial activity

7 Summit Lake, Alaska Cirque Lakes Lake Seal, Tasmania

8 Paternoster lakes (Glacier National Park)

9 Fjords (Norway)

10 Kettle lakes (ex Dundee WI) formed when block of trapped glacial ice in accumulated till melted. Plunge-pool lakes formed at the base of a waterfalls off retreating glaciers. melt water

11 Space-shuttle photograph of the Finger Lake district in western New York. http://www.geospectra.net/kite/ny_finger/finger.htm Morainal damming formed the Finger Lakes, Lake Mendota (& many WI lakes)

12 Glacial Lakes

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15 Polygon ponds, Arctic region (see book Fig. 11.18).

16 Lake Baikal Max depth 1,620 m Length: 636 km Width: 80 km Shoreline length: 2,100 km Volume: 23,600 km 3 (almost 20% of the world’s surface fresh water, more than all five Great Lakes combined) Tectonic Lakes (formed by deep earth crustal movements)

17 Lake Tanganyika Graben lakes: multiple faults (see book Fig 11.19)

18 Rifting A geologic term that describes the process that occurs when land sinks between two parallel faults.

19 Lake Chad Depth: 2-3 m Watershed:lake = 604:1 African rift lakes

20 Lake Chad, which once straddled the borders of Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, has shrunk by an estimated 95% since the mid 1960s, due to the growth of agriculture and declining rainfall. Image: Unep

21 Volcanic crater Lakes

22 (See also book Fig 11.20)

23 Riverine (or fluvial) lakes

24 Riverine lakes (book Fig 11.17): Dominant lake type at low latitudes Oxbow, blocked-valley, floodplain lakes (varzea) River meander becomes separated  Oxbow lakes (billabong) http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/gifs/wilkin_oxbow.jpg

25 Lakes with other origins Coastal lakes Solution (karst) lakes Reservoirs

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27 Wintergarden, Florida

28 “Gator Lake”, Florida Everglades (1989)

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