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  title info:
    title: Lakes of the World with Google Earth
    sub title: Understanding our Environment
  name:
    name part: Scheffers, Anja M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kelletat, Dieter H.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 293 p. 404 illus., 270 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Featuring satellite imagery from Google Earth, this guide provides a unique, highly visual tour of lakes across the globe, from the simple to the complex, the nearby to the remote. Clear text accompanies each image and identifies important aspects of each lake along with such information as its coordinates, scale, and altitudes, if relevant. From the many aspects of lake science including water budgets, temperature regimes, mixing types, biology/ecology, and chemistry, the book concentrates on the genesis of lakes and other closed forms containing water, moisture/swamps or minerals. Its organisation follows different forms of lake origin (often connected to the question of age) such as extra-terrestrial meteor impacts, structural depressions by tectonic activity, patterning of joints or faults, volcanic origin, or the forming influence of glacier ice, subterranean permafrost, littoral processes, running water, wind, and solution of rocks (karst forms). Coverage also deals with temporal variations in lake existence within the context of climate change in the past and the future. In addition, special chapters are devoted to saline (or salt) lakes, and — in their evaporated forms — to saltpans. Providing essential information at a glance, this guide will be help both specialists and general readers better understand the world's lakes as well as see them in a new perspective.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: General approach, and a short look at the diversity of lakes -- 2. Important pre-requisites for the existence of lakes: Basin and depression forming processes -- 3. Swamps, bogs and other wetlands -- 4. Saline lakes and saltpans -- 5. Lakes adapted to landscapes and climate -- 6. Epilogue: History and future of lakes in times of climate change and rising World population -- Index. .
  note: by Anja M. Scheffers, Dieter H. Kelletat.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Water
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Science education
  subject:
    topic: Marine sciences
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Marine & Freshwater Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physical Geography
  subject:
    topic: Water, general
  subject:
    topic: Science Education
  classification: QH541.5.S3
  classification: QH541.5.F7
  classification: 551.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Coastal Research Library, 16
  identifier: 9783319296173
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29617-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 160614
    record change date: 20160621191613.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-29617-3