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Lake sediment coring
Lake sediment coring is the extraction of cylindrical sediment columns from lake beds, using gravity, piston, vibracorer, and drilling systems to recover layered records of past environments for paleolimnology, paleoclimatology, and contamination studies.
Lake Sevan (Սևանա լիճ)
Sevan (Sevana lich, Սևանա լիճ) is Armenia's and the Caucasus's largest freshwater lake, a 1,242 km² alpine lake at 1,900 m in Gegharkunik Province, lowered about 20 m under Soviet irrigation and hydropower schemes and now recovering via the Arpa-Sevan and Vorotan-Arpa tunnels.
Lake Shawnee Amusement Park
Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, also called Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park, was a 1926-1966 amusement park in Rock, Mercer County, West Virginia, built near the 1783 Clay massacre site and Native American graves, now a private haunted-tour destination.
Lake Shore Drive
Lake Shore Drive, officially Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive, is a limited-access highway carrying US Route 41 along the Lake Michigan shore of Chicago through downtown.
Lake Side power plant
Lake Side power plant is PacifiCorp's 1,246 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Vineyard, Utah, built on the former Geneva Steel site and commissioned in 2007.
Lake Somerset
Lake Somerset is the name of several reservoirs, most notably a water supply and flood mitigation reservoir on the Brisbane River in Queensland, Australia, completed in 1951.
Lake Speed
Lake Speed (Lake Chambers Speed, born 1948), Jackson, Mississippi NASCAR Cup driver 1980-1998; 1978 World Karting Champion beating Ayrton Senna; one Cup win, 1988 TranSouth 500 at Darlington, in 402 starts.
Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair, or Lac Sainte-Claire, is a shallow freshwater lake between Lake Huron and Lake Erie on the Michigan–Ontario border, covering 430 square miles.
Lake stratification
Lake stratification, or thermal stratification, is the layering of a lake's water by density, typically into a warm epilimnion, a cold hypolimnion, and a thermocline between.
Lake Street Dive
Lake Street Dive is an American pop-soul band formed in 2004 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston by singer Rachael Price and three bandmates.
Lake Suguta
Lake Suguta was a large Pleistocene and Holocene lake filling the Suguta Valley in the northern Kenya Rift, reaching about 300 m deep during the African Humid Period.
Lake Superior
Lake Superior, largest and deepest of the North American Great Lakes (31,700 sq mi; max depth 1,332 ft), sits in a 1.1-billion-year-old failed rift basin rich in native copper and banded iron, with ice cover declining as the climate warms.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe, a deep ultra-oligotrophic alpine lake on the California–Nevada border at 6,224 ft elevation, is famed for clarity monitored by Secchi disk since the late 1960s; clarity declined, then plateaued near 69 feet, managed via the 2010 TMDL program.
Lake Tana
Lake Tana, also known as Tana hayk, is a large, shallow freshwater lake in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands and the main source of the Blue Nile River.
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika: large deep rift lake in East Africa (Burundi, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia), second deepest after Baikal, formed of alternating half-grabens; famed for endemic cichlids and warming-driven stratification.
Lake Tatta
Lake Tatta (Tatta Limne) is the hypersaline lake of inner Anatolia described by classical geographers, identified today with Tuz Gölü, about 120 km south of Ankara.
Lake Tekapo
Lake Tekapo (Takapō) is a 30 km glacial lake at 710 m in New Zealand's Mackenzie Basin, turquoise from glacial flour, feeding the Tekapo hydro scheme and hosting Mt John Observatory.
Lake Texcoco
Lake Texcoco (Lago de Texcoco), largest of the five lakes of Mexico's endorheic Basin of Mexico, site of Tenochtitlan; over 95% drained, now a Ramsar protected area and ecological park on the cancelled NAIM airport site.
Lake Texoma
Lake Texoma is a 74,686-acre reservoir on the Red River formed by Denison Dam (completed 1944) on the Oklahoma-Texas border, known for self-sustaining landlocked striped bass and the world record blue catfish.
Lake Tharthar (بحيرة الثرثار)
Lake Tharthar (بحيرة الثرثار), Iraq's largest lake, is a reservoir formed after 1956 by diverting Tigris floodwater into the Wadi al-Tharthar depression between the Tigris and Euphrates, holding about 85 billion cubic meters for flood control and irrigation transfer.
Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca, a large Andean Altiplano lake shared by Peru and Bolivia at about 3,810 m, is South America's largest freshwater lake and the world's highest large navigable lake, sacred to Tiwanaku and Inca cultures.
Lake Toba
Lake Toba (Danau Toba), also called the Toba Caldera, is a volcanic caldera lake in North Sumatra, Indonesia, formed by a supervolcano eruption about 74,000 years ago and now part of a UNESCO Global Geopark.
Lake Travis
Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Central Texas, formed by Mansfield Dam northwest of Austin; it is the only Highland Lake with dedicated flood storage.
Lake trout
Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), also called laker or mackinaw, is North America's largest freshwater char, native from Alaska to Nova Scotia and the Great Lakes, a deepwater apex predator restored in Lake Superior after sea lamprey collapse but invasive west of the Rockies.
Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana, formerly Lake Rudolf and called the Jade Sea for its green color, is the world's largest desert lake, stretching 249 kilometers across northern Kenya into Ethiopia.
Lake Turkana National Parks
Lake Turkana National Parks: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Kenya (Sibiloi, Central Island, South Island parks; 161,485 ha), inscribed 1997, extended 2001, on the Danger List since 2018 over the Gibe III dam.
Lake Urmia (دریاچه ارومیه)
Lake Urmia (دریاچه ارومیه), once called Lake Rezaiyeh, is a hypersaline lake in northwestern Iran and the world's second largest hypersaline lake, now about 90% dried up.
Lake Uvs and its surrounding wetlands
Lake Uvs and its surrounding wetlands is a Ramsar Site in Uvs Aimag, western Mongolia, centered on Uvs Lake, the largest saline lake in Mongolia, important for migratory waterbirds.
Lake Van
Lake Van (Turkish: Van Gölü) is a large soda lake in eastern Anatolia, Turkey, the largest soda lake and third largest terminal lake on Earth after the Caspian Sea and Lake Issyk-Kul.
Lake Vänern Archipelago and Mount Kinnekulle Biosphere Reserve
Lake Vänern Archipelago and Mount Kinnekulle Biosphere Reserve (Biosfärområde Vänerskärgården med Kinnekulle), Sweden's second UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 2010; 278,600 hectares across Götene, Lidköping, and Mariestad municipalities around Lake Vänern and Mount Kinnekulle.