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igotthisguitar · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: How Can A Lake Simply Disappear?

How Can A Lake Simply Disappear?
by Jacob Silverman

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1. How can a lake simply disappear? 2. Other Disappearing Lakes 3. Lots More Information 4. See all Geophysics articles

Sometime in May 2007, a glacial lake in southern Chile disappeared.

Chilean surveyors reported in March that the lake was its usual size, 100 feet deep and covering an area around five acres. Located in Bernardo O'Higgins Park, in the southern Andes mountains, the lake is (was) rarely visited and didn't even have a name.

When Chilean forestry officials arrived, they were surprised to find nothing more than "chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure" where the unnamed lake had once been [Source: The Guardian].

Five miles away, a river that was once more than 130 feet wide barely flowed. What could cause such a massive disturbance to make an entire lake and much of a river disappear?

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http://science.howstuffworks.com/disappearing-lake.htm

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

Relevance?

poet13 · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject:

The answer was already determined to be excess water eroded and melted the morraine holding the water back. It's filling up again.

newteacher · Joined: 31 May 2007

It's his fault.

Czarjorge · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject:

1. The devil took it. He's naughty.

2. I don't know, but it must be some sort of conspiracy.

3. Aliens. Their space radiator was overheating.

4. A thirsty soccer team that had crashed in the area.

5. The people who opposed Ron Paul.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:09 am Post subject:

"Secret" underground military bases networked throughout the region.

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khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

As poet said, logic would deduce that there was a blockage that loosened and made everything drain out quickly.