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Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia (Asia), is the world's deepest fresh water lake at 1,638 metres deep. It is 636 km long and is the world's sixth largest lake and 1,181 metres of it is below sea level. It contains 20% of the world's fresh water which is so clear that divers suffer from vertigo. Based on sediment at the bottom, it is also the world's oldest lake at 25 million years, based on an ancient fault, the Olkhon Crevice. 2,000 species of plant and animal life have been identified in Lake Baikal, 75% of which appears nowhere else in the world.
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Which is tectonic lake?
Lake Baikal in Russia is an example of a tectonic lake. It was formed in a rift zone where tectonic plates are pulling apart, creating a deep basin that eventually filled with water. Lake Baikal is the world's oldest and deepest freshwater lake, with unique biodiversity due to its ancient origins.
Found in Lake Baikal in Russia the nerpa seal is unique Why?
It is the only freshwater seal
What Russian lake has the most fresh water?
Lake Baikal.
What nation is lake baikal in?
Lake Baikal is in Southern Siberia in Russia.
What is the world's deepest lake before lake Baikal was found?
Found or no, Lake Baikal was the depest !
Is lake Baikal a glacier lake?
Lake Baikal ia a Fault Action/Rift Valley.
This major lake is found in serberian russia?
Lake Baikal!=)
What is the world's deepest freshwater lake in the world?
Baikal Lake (Ozero Baikal)
Was Lake Baikal named for something?
lake Baikal was not named after anything or anyone
What is the biggest freshwater lake?
Lake Baikal, In Southern Siberia. Lake Baikal, In Southern Siberia.
What animals are in Lake Baikal?
For about five months of the year, Lake Baikal is covered by a sheet of ice. For this reason, about 80% of the animals found living in the world's largest fresh water lake are not found anywhere else in the world.
What does baikal mean?
Baikal is the name of a lake in Russia.
