Lake type
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"Lake type" denotes the variety or class of a lake.
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| Continental Rift Lake | Lake Baikal | |||
| Artificial Lake | Wonder Lake | |||
| Crater lake |
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Lake Maninjau |
A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater, caldera, or maar. Incoming precipitation fills the depression to form a deepening lake, until an equilibrium is reached between the rate of water coming in and the rate of water loss due to...
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| Lake Gunung Tujuh | ||||
| Tianchi | ||||
| Lake Nyos | ||||
| Lake Shikotsu | ||||
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| Endorheic | ||||
| Glacial lake |
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Big Moose Lake |
A glacial lake is a lake with origins in a melted glacier.
Glacial lakes can be green as a result of pulverized minerals (rock flour) that support a large population of algae.
A retreating glacier often leaves behind large deposits of ice in...
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| Bucura lake | ||||
| Harker Lake | ||||
| Upper Harker Lake | ||||
| Hidden Lake | ||||
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| Maar |
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Mountain type | Zuni Salt Lake |
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. The maar typically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake....
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| Tarn |
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Geographical Feature | Lake Tear of the Clouds |
A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. A corrie may be called a cirque.
The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn meaning pond; it is...
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| Box Lake | ||||
| Snow Lake | ||||
| Grisedale Tarn | ||||
| Bleaberry Tarn | ||||
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| Meromictic |
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Lake Nyos |
A meromictic lake has layers of water which do not intermix. In ordinary, "holomictic" lakes, at least once each year there is a physical mixing of the surface and the deep waters. This mixing can be driven by wind, which creates waves and...
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| Lake Monoun | ||||
| Lake Kivu | ||||
| Crawford Lake Conservation Area | ||||
| Lake Bogoria | ||||
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| Mesotrophic | Lake Thun |
Mesotrophic lakes are lakes with an intermediate level of productivity, greater than oligotrophic lake, but less than eutrophic lakes. These lakes are commonly clear water lakes and ponds with beds of submerged aquatic plants and medium levels of...
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| Lake Nipissing | ||||
| Lake Kizaki | ||||
| Loch Ruthven | ||||
| Müritz | ||||
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| Moraine dammed lake | Flathead Lake |
A moraine-dammed lake occurs when a terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley. Its most common shape is that of a long ribbon (ribbon lake). Example of moraine dammed lakes include:
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| Morskie Oko | ||||
| Jenny Lake | ||||
| Jackson Lake | ||||
| Panguipulli Lake | ||||
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| Salt lake |
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Lake Urmia |
The salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water which has a concentration of salt (mostly sodium chloride) and other minerals significantly higher than most lake (often defined as at least 3,000 milligram of salt per liter). In many cases...
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| Lake Van | ||||
| Lake Natron | ||||
| Pyramid Lake | ||||
| Old Wives Lake | ||||
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| Pond |
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Geographical Feature | Quaboag Pond |
A pond is a body of water smaller than a lake, both being examples of terrain feature. Although the term pond is universally used to describe waterbodies that are smaller than lakes, an internationally recognised size cutoff has not yet been agreed,...
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| Brooks Pond | ||||
| Thompsons Pond | ||||
| Swan Lake/Iris Gardens | ||||
| Water reservoir |
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Big Bear Lake |
A reservoir is, most broadly, a place or hollow vessel where something (usually liquid) is kept in reserve, for later use. Most often, a reservoir refers to an artificial lake, used to store water for various uses. Reservoirs are created first by...
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| Lake Houston | ||||
| Lake Ruataniwha | ||||
| Lake Aviemore | ||||
| Lake McQueeney | ||||
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| Fresh water |
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Sea of Galilee |
A term that refers to bodies of water such as pond, lakes, rivers and streams containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Freshwater is an important renewable resource, necessary for the survival of most...
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| Tolay Lake | ||||
| Lake Bunyonyi | ||||
| Lake Chany | ||||
| Loch Earn | ||||
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| Monomictic | Mono Lake |
Monomictic lakes are holomictic lakes that mix from top to bottom during one mixing period each year. Monomictic lakes may be subdivided into two types:
1) Cold Monomictic lakes are lakes that are covered by ice throughout much of the year. During...
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| Issyk Kul | ||||
| Okanagan Lake | ||||
| Lake Turkana | ||||
| Sea of Galilee | ||||
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| Hypersaline | Mono Lake | |||
| Lacustrine |
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Lacustrine means "of a lake" or "relating to a lake".
Specifically, it may refer to:
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