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The Earth’s Most Curious LakesWHEN 14 siteem in JJ« courge meof* with a depression iniht tend tnui WHiel) itflows, and nil* it up to theUp of He low«r exit, wv have a lake,which* rcgardls** or u* «t*lt;■ whetherIt he 100 COO iq tin f r ml tea »r feef. 1»•4111 properly ft ink* eay* The Scrnj*BookTh * Cipplifi *ea, IlMfpforft, with oil , *3a mile* of length mi‘Hit *80 mlkti of lerglh rntui it» area Of lifl.Ooh square miles, !■ a noli Ink®. the largest Iri the world It* «t*# may t«th^ Defter ■ippr*etftU‘d when tt U com.pared with Lake Bu|.»r|tiF, th# i.irgc*tbody of fresh water in the world, which ha■ an aros of more than 31.OP® squaremile*- The water ltvrj of th« Caspian |a *7 foot below the ordln9Xf *•* level. At the non? hern, and deeper, part the wfllir Ip about a* *aRy ftp theocean, but to the north, where 11 t« shallower, It IP pci fre»h at Umtui that It may b« dr'inkf4kc VldOf»4 NyiinM, the largcftt lake In Africa, rank* eocoud amongsided ecu side ratal r, hoi in lata year* they have bap* rlalbg, Ore»t #*Jt lake la prvhahl y thft shallowest body of art ter 1q the''wdflg-fer Up i 1*». having an ***ragi* depth of only 30 feet.Umn lake. In Colorado hne two Claim* to fame Oivo It that It la the highest body of water In the Uplted£ ta les, ]ta surface being It Jit fret above th# level of the sea In addition* Ha witara are said to have a petrifying ofleei ii |« a fact that from Oio aur face one may look down through waterfm clear aa crystal and ace at the hot.orn w very catenate* petrified forust,of duaallng whltenm**. w »Crater or Sunken lake, situated in ihe Cascade mountains of Oregon, li theorater of an aatlnrt volcano, it ip morothen lt;,B0 feet above the aea. and t«walled about wtih volcanic cliff# oftremendous height. It la 21 mltftfl In olfchmfirenoa and ita depth ia unknown.!*ake Morat, in SvftkOrlahd. for contort** eraa regarded by the Bwlaa with auperatltlnua dread. It Uftp surrounded101 gguaro I dice,and He greatestthe ffeab-waier lake# of Iht worU. r *** can tuna ^ having an area of ii.000 aquara mil**- j J4^ every II gearg It la asld to turnSituated at an elevation of g.lko foot, I blood’!*! B*#u today many oMh®WlUt the equator cutting aeroe# Ita northern portion. It pn«Dtii perhaps the moat* remarkably wild «ctn« of »ny lake In the world* Ita shores vary from precipitous cliff* to low and brll-tumily colored woodland*. and In It tie# thlt;* remarkable Beams archipelago, corn-posed of more than Id© Island*. The lake I* al*o the pour^a of thp mopt romantically historical river In the world,the TfTO. x r—-----The Dead »*a. which Ilea II ml!#* pout Up*at of Jeruftftlem Jn tha ancient • Vale of Slddlm. * **. like the Cnaplan p#a, below aea level, though the phy»ioal peculiarity of the latter fades into In* plgrtidcancp when it 1* Cgnatdered that (he Dead era la no left* then 1,113 feat below the level of the M *1 Herr a nean. It cor or* «n area of aquare rnllt*.PMtiinii r^g«rd the ch*ng« s* in omen of evil, Sclanllat* have dleoovered however, that the reddiah color la given to the water by a minute plant, similar to that which eaupep the red anow affect lh the Alp* The lake la five and a half mtlea long.The Sal ton »*a of . California I* unique. Two yaafa ego ita bed waa •dry vallay. the Pita of a town and of «mtvT*«Hre eelt w+*#k*. where were racazvated 4he va«t dvpipHa of aelt left In that region by the Qulf of Callfomfa. The Colorado rivrr In time brought down *o much dotrltua that it built for it pelf a great dyke, on the top of which it ran, hundred* of feat abova the level of tha purroundlng platna When an tii|*nlottf company gni to work. In lift!, on a project to Irrigate thq lm*It t* Ten milt* long width l« lift tullpft.Lake BeikMl in juiotber aatrabrdtnary body of wpter. it cover# an area oft jog mi So*, atid tut relume of water t«out a* great as tbtu of L»kr Su»per tor, which l« morw than twice ifp . »l*4V Thla la due lb Baikal J gr*«t«r ^depth. HN»n November till April each year Lake Baikal ta froaen over with to thick a covering of tee that the Bus-•fens are accuntom^d to Jay track a andrim tmfnm arroaa it -----Medical lake, an called on ucCfmnt ofI he r*m*dttt| virtu** * of iu water*, tp aliuatml on the great Columbia plateau in souther it Washington, at an altitude Of 2,30# feet above the fevnl of the Pa. clflc. It fa about n mile long, from r\ bnlf to three quarter* of a mile inwidth and with a maximum depth of abdut «0 feet. The rompe«»tilt;m of ita water* is aim opt kHuitlcal wftb that of Ihe Dead era, and. life* Ilf oriental countrrpari, no plant hi» yet bagti found growing on or near He edge*Mono lakt la one Of the rnraterler ofeast Cdittrftl Califrtmto- It He* at analtitude of J,f30 f*»t, and Ita area is about f« aquare mile* »ndat bora*, ami other mlneraia abound in ita wat«r». and In windy weather catia* a aoapy fmifn a* veto I fcrtt u lek to form on Ha aurfnee. Ft«h cannot live In lift water*, .and any vegetation touched by Ha *pr*v*»* baa the Mhpcarancc of having been affected by fire.Asphalt lake*, which are rcnliy de^ poaltP, rather than r*#ervotrt, qf mineral pitch, are widely dlfrptnted throughti,« wall* wwli, *^»p«pwu)y In u*p tropl-col region*. At present the two m»at rofitrthlc aaphalt take* nre In Trinidad tid Vencauela, from whlrh la obtainH t#uch of tho utrphalt u«^d in thla owm* try*. In appearanr^ an napluilt lak* Im aoild: the aurfaca can bn walked uponIand its waters contain nearly ti ptr | P*b«l valley, tapping *Bd hr'-rn.dngcent of aoild gnbgiam, largely aalt, giving it great ftpccific gravity. It con-lain* neither vegetable nor anlmgl life Tho D-ad pen la ports*pa the oideaLhl*torioatly. of all lake*, mention beingmade of It in noMg tiiouaanda ofyvera old. From H* Latin name LacuaAaphalTltea, cornea our modern word asphalt po called beenuthe productwas found there in ftnclcnt time*.The Clrcat Bale lake. In Utah, though 4.SII fe«i above the ae« beam a clew rwrnhlance to tht Dead «*a an far *ataltneag 1* ccmeerned, the proportion of mineral matter l*eJng US per tent. In Addition to thla intenfte «aitlneap It* moat remnrkable fast tire la It* wn explained ftoctmUfMI of *rca In I- fidit covered 1JW aquare miles; In IS«2 It had Increnft-’d to 1.171, During th*»period of Itf0-l«t0 tha water* aub-water from the Colorado through the dry bed of an old rlvtr, the flood that poured down poop got beyond all control, and finding it* level In Ballonpink, tha lowest P»rt of tha valley, it began to form a lake. Today the average depth !■ 20 feet. Tha saw !« morethan 90 mile* long.Tha Blank ae# differ* In a moat re-markahla manner from other lakes andMaj*. A furfaca current flow* conilnu-• Hy from it into tha Mad 1 tar rant* n, and a* undwrctirrant from tha Mediterranean Into tha Black gat. The latter current U salt, and being heavier than the frcah water above it, become* *!»*-mint at the bottom Being saturated with nuifurafftd hydrogen, thla water will not maintain Hfe, and *o the BlackMia contain* no living thing bolow thadepth of 100 fathomi Ita area 9p i«i,*and. In fact, wagon* and railroad train*are driven over it; but. in reality, themla a continual movement and flow, flftrepm* of aaphalt cmp down d^dlvl tlea, and th« excavation a made by the ramovni of the produet are entirety filled up In the course of a faw month*. There I* still a fnmoua productive asphalt hike in Asia, called the Fountains Of la, on a tributary of the Euphrates whare thou»nnd« of yeara ago tha ancient Babylonian a got their supply Bolling lake fa on the 1 aland of rvominlcs. lying In tha mountain* behind Roseau. In tile valley* purround-Ing it are many polfatgra*, or volcanic aulfur venta The temperatura the water on the margin* of ihe Ink# fwflgv* from Ii# to 110 dPgraaa Fahrenheit- In the middle, directly cvtr the gaa mttk U Ip more than too degrees Other ■heel* of water with aim liar character-latlca are numeroua throughout th«world, but fsw are of duffle lent Importance to create much inttreat.
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Portland Oregon Daily Journal
Portland, Oregon, US
Sun, Jan 13, 1907
Page 21
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