Rift lake
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A rift lake is a lake formed as a result of subsidence related to movement on faults within a rift zone, an area of extensional tectonics in the continental crust. They are often found within rift valleys and may be very deep. Rift lakes may be bounded by large steep cliffs along the fault margins.
Examples [edit]
- Lake Khuvsgul in northern Mongolia
- Rift Valley lakes, eastern Africa
- Lake Baikal in Siberia
- Lake Vostok in Antarctica may have formed in a rift setting[1]
- Lake Balaton in Hungary
- Salton Sea, southern California
- The Orcadian Basin – rift lakes formed during the Middle Devonian in northern Scotland [2]
- Lake Lockatong – a rift lake of Triassic age formed in the Newark Basin.[3]
References [edit]
- ^ Lake Vostok Workshop (1998). "Lake Vostok: A Curiosity or a Focus for Interdisciplinary Study?". p. 83. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
- ^ Marshall,J.E.A. & Hewett,A.J. 2003. Devonian. In: Evans, D., Graham, C., Armour, A. & Bathurst, P. (eds): The Millennium Atlas: petroleum geology of the central and northern North Sea. London, the Geological Society of London, 65–81.
- ^ Stones of Princeton
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