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Thaw Lake Coalescence
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Chris Arp
Registered: October 2000
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The farthest lakes in this photo are lake 29 (left) and lake 31 (right). Both are shallow (<3 m) thermokarst lakes in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area in northern Alaska. These lakes joined in about 2002 by thermokarst erosion of their shorelines. Lake 31 was originally at a higher elevation and now is about 1 m lower, significantly reducing its volume and now allowing it to freeze solid in some years. Lake coalescence and complete drainage is a common process shaping the landscape of this region.
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| · Date: January 15, 2009 · Views: 6,533 · Filesize: 28.0kb, 462.5kb · Dimensions: 3072 x 2304 ·
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Keywords: thermokarst lakes, thermokarsting, Arctic, Alaska, lake coalescence, Teshekpuk Lake Special Area
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