Sentences with phrase «form lake basins»

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«We think there were a lot of hot spring environments on Mars,» says Farmer, «and large lake basins where evaporites may have formed.

The development of the East African Rift valley fragmented the landscape and formed a large number of separate lake basins.

On geologic time scales, lakes — including those created by man - made concrete edifices — are temporary bodies, as ongoing geologic forces will eventually either break the earth and rock dams that hold them, or fill the basin with sediments forming a fresh geologic record.

Lorenyang Lake, a body of water formed during the Pleistocene (1.9 mya), was much longer - lasting than any other lake in the Turkana baLake, a body of water formed during the Pleistocene (1.9 mya), was much longer - lasting than any other lake in the Turkana balake in the Turkana basin.

The effects of the lake variability may have been enhanced at 1.8 Ma as key geological features that fragment the current lake Basins had yet to form; including the Barrier volcano separating Lake Turkana and the Suguta valley (∼ 1.4 Ma eastern side and ∼ 0.7 Ma western side) and the Emuruangogolak volcano (∼ 1.3 Ma), and Namarunu volcano (0.8 Ma) which separate Lake Baringo and the Suguta Valley [35]--[37], [lake variability may have been enhanced at 1.8 Ma as key geological features that fragment the current lake Basins had yet to form; including the Barrier volcano separating Lake Turkana and the Suguta valley (∼ 1.4 Ma eastern side and ∼ 0.7 Ma western side) and the Emuruangogolak volcano (∼ 1.3 Ma), and Namarunu volcano (0.8 Ma) which separate Lake Baringo and the Suguta Valley [35]--[37], [lake Basins had yet to form; including the Barrier volcano separating Lake Turkana and the Suguta valley (∼ 1.4 Ma eastern side and ∼ 0.7 Ma western side) and the Emuruangogolak volcano (∼ 1.3 Ma), and Namarunu volcano (0.8 Ma) which separate Lake Baringo and the Suguta Valley [35]--[37], [Lake Turkana and the Suguta valley (∼ 1.4 Ma eastern side and ∼ 0.7 Ma western side) and the Emuruangogolak volcano (∼ 1.3 Ma), and Namarunu volcano (0.8 Ma) which separate Lake Baringo and the Suguta Valley [35]--[37], [Lake Baringo and the Suguta Valley [35]--[37], [44].

The progressive formation of the EARS also led to the production of isolated basins within which lakes could form.