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Lately when the winter blew
Nov. 6th, 2008 12:04 amSo I just re-found Lake Baikal*, and if you guys have never heard of it, you should have. It actually came up on Jeopardy recently, and I knew what they meant, but I couldn't remember the exact name. It's the biggest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and also the deepest. It holds %20 of the world's fresh water. The Caspian Sea beats it in volume, but that's salty, and a few of the Great Lakes beat it in surface area.**
It's also the oldest lake in the world, and it's just hella deep, and for some reason, it fascinates me. It's caused by a rift valley, and that rift is the deepest continental rift in the world. The bottom of it is more than five miles down. The lake itself is only (ONLY) a little over a mile deep, the rest is sediment, which is crazy cool itself if you think about it.
I really have no idea why I love this lake I've never seen so much, but I think I first learned about it in geology, and from the very first, I just thought it was fantastically cool.
I think it's the idea that it's both the oldest and deepest lake in the world, and it's surrounded by mountains in the middle of Siberia, and it's just this hugely ancient beast just sitting there, keeping all its secrets a mile under water. If you want to find a Loch Ness monster, screw Scotland - it's here, if it's anywhere.
I really like old things.
*I actually got here legitimately through homework - there's a neutrino detector submerged in it these days.
**All numbers taken from wiki
It's also the oldest lake in the world, and it's just hella deep, and for some reason, it fascinates me. It's caused by a rift valley, and that rift is the deepest continental rift in the world. The bottom of it is more than five miles down. The lake itself is only (ONLY) a little over a mile deep, the rest is sediment, which is crazy cool itself if you think about it.
I really have no idea why I love this lake I've never seen so much, but I think I first learned about it in geology, and from the very first, I just thought it was fantastically cool.
I think it's the idea that it's both the oldest and deepest lake in the world, and it's surrounded by mountains in the middle of Siberia, and it's just this hugely ancient beast just sitting there, keeping all its secrets a mile under water. If you want to find a Loch Ness monster, screw Scotland - it's here, if it's anywhere.
I really like old things.
*I actually got here legitimately through homework - there's a neutrino detector submerged in it these days.
**All numbers taken from wiki
