Lakes [electronic resource] : their birth, life, and death / John Richard Saylor,.
"The book begins with how lakes are born; subsequent chapters look at crater lakes, dams; the Carolina bays; oriented lakes; subglacial lakes; and salt lakes. The middle chapters look at the physical properties of lakes. The final chapters examine the ways in which lakes die, either through human or...
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Language: | English |
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Portland, Oregon :
Timber Press,
2022.
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Variant Title: |
Lakes: Their Birth, Life, and Death |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Glaciers : the master creator
- Volcanic lakes : an inherited violence
- Dams : natural and manmade
- The Carolina bays
- Oriented lakes
- Subglacial lakes
- Salt lakes
- Lake overturning
- Dissolved gas : oxygen and carbon dioxide
- Ice
- Surface tension
- Evaporation
- Death by human
- Tectonics.