Sentences with phrase «large lake basins»

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

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Geoscientists have, for the first time, discovered the origins of Australia's two largest basins: Lake Eyre and the Murray - Darling Basin.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

During the Last Glacial Maximum when the Earth was much colder, closed - basin lakes in currently dry parts of western North America, the Middle East and South America were much larger than they are now, as evidenced by radiocarbon dating and other testing of their ancient shorelines.

Monthly measurements in the change in water mass from December 2004 to November 2013 revealed the basin lost nearly 53 million acre feet (65 cubic kilometers) of freshwater, almost double the volume of the nation's largest reservoir, Nevada's Lake Mead.

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

Later in the Pliocene (about 4.1 mya), a large body of water, Lonyumun Lake, covered the Turkana basin for about 100,000 years.

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Surrounded by several volcanoes and with a once volcanic basin, Lake Atitlan is Central America's largest and deepest lLake Atitlan is Central America's largest and deepest lakelake.

Its practitioners included Robert Smithson, whose Spiral Jetty (1970) in Utah's Great Salt Lake basin is one of the movement's best - known works, and James Turrell, an artist represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix whose Roden Crater project started in 1972 involves the ongoing transformation of a volcanic crater into a large - scale art work.

I am suggesting using the Great Lakes as a broader measure, homogenizing many local areas into a much larger water shed basin with a reasonable historical measurement archive readily available.

http://www.eeescience.utoledo.edu/faculty/stierman/OakOpen/GSA/P05.htm or for further chronology of the basin http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/glacial.html and for lake Agassiz http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001AGUFMPP21C..03T This latter abstract indicates a release at 12.9, but it of the same magnitude of several other smaller releases and much smaller than the largest release.