What causes a lake to disappear?

[Turtle]

Turtle, can you explain the relevance of your statement above? As I'm pretty sure nobody is making that claim either.

 

posted article(s) in this thread make(s) that claim.

Missing lake a global warming victim?

Chilean lake vanished, and melting glaciers could be behind it

Missing lake a global warming victim? - Climate Change - MSNBC.com

 

:) :(

[InfiniteNow]

posted article(s) in this thread make(s) that claim.

 

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Okay. Thanks for clarifying.

 

I read the article a bit differently, in that the concept of a globe experiencing climate change was a given, and this areas local warming resulted increased glacial metling. Amazing how different eyes read different things in the same articles. I love the science of perceptual cognition! :)

[Turtle]

Okay. Thanks for clarifying.

 

I read the article a bit differently, in that the concept of a globe experiencing climate change was a given, and this areas local warming resulted increased glacial metling. Amazing how different eyes read different things in the same articles. I love the science of perceptual cognition! :D

 

i can't anticipate your errors, only correct them when i encounter them. the article in question is as rife with speculation as this thread.:) i clearly read in the article that the global-warming-drained-the-lake theory is not held by all:

...Casassa said glaciers can recede for other reasons than global warming. It can be the result of the natural dynamic of glaciers, which recede or grow. "But I am convinced that in this case, it is the result of global warming," he said.

 

The empty lake is about 5,000 feet above sea level.

 

Romero, the head of the forest service, said another theory is that the water disappeared through huge cracks at the bottom of the crater. He said the cracks may have been caused by the strong quake that rocked the region on April 21....

 

misperception and contradiction all over the darn place, eh what? :D ;)

[InfiniteNow]

i can't anticipate your errors, only correct them when i encounter them. the article in question is as rife with speculation as this thread.:) i clearly read in the article that the global-warming-drained-the-lake theory is not held by all:

 

 

misperception and contradiction all over the darn place, eh what? :D ;)

 

Okay.

[Turtle]

i also noticed the lake has grown right along with our hyperbole. :D it was only a disappeared 5 acre lake at first, & in the last linked article the lake that disappeared was 10 to 12 acres. :)

 

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why...100-foot deep Andes lake disappears - CNN.com

 

 

Earlier this year it had a surface area of 10-12 acres -- about the size of 10 soccer fields. Missing lake swallowed up by crack - CNN.com

 

if it weren't for the blame-global-warming-for-everything trend going on these days, the drained lake would not even be a story. i only hope freeztar has as big a grin on his kisser. ;) :D

[DougF]

Told ya it was extraterrestrials. They're mean with those ray guns. ;) :)

{OK this is a little off subject but had to post.}

Large lake which disappeared last year in one night returns to its place - Pravda.Ru

 

Amazed villagers from Bolotnikovo in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Region are sure they will again be swimming in the lake that disappeared in the spring of 2005 and is coming back now.[/Quote]

 

the best part. :) :D :D

 

 

A tractor driver from the village suggested the most incredible explanation for the lake’s disappearing. He believes that those were extraterrestrials that stole water from the lake. Many of the villagers support the theory. They often observed some reddish light resembling a searchlight that originated from the area where the lake used to be. [/Quote]

[freeztar]

Good eye Turtle. :D ;)

 

I still think that the crew from Star Trek 4 came and sucked it up for a non-sodium whale. :)

 

But cerealy, I do not think that Rivera is correct in assuming that this event was direct evidence of GW (but that's for a different thread I suppose).

 

So is everyone happy with the final outcome? It seems that we do not have too much info and that which we do have is very suspect. It's also hard to speculate from here, behind our screens. I'm happy with the explanation....for now anyways.

[Southtown]

An investigation has revealed that too much water was the problem. The melting Tempano and Bernardo glaciers filled the lake beyond the crater's capacity. The increased pressure broke the lake's moraine through which water flowed out, later ending up in the ocean.

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How Stuff Works

(from DougF)

 

According to the team, the lake was dammed at one end by part of the Bernado glacier. Melting from another part of the glacier increased the amount of water in the lake so much that the additional pressure simply broke through the ice dam.

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New Scientist

Wow, I'd say Inow nailed it.