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Lake Disappears into Andes

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the here-today-gone-tomorrow dept.

steveb3210 writes "It seems that what was once a 5-acre glacial lake in the Andes has mysteriously disappeared. 'In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal,' Juan Jose Romero from Chile's National Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said. 'We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.'" The current theory is that an earthquake opened the ground and allowed the lake to drain. Looks like global warming is off the hook this time around.

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  1. Wouldn't be the first time... by Ellis+D.+Tripp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    that a lake disappeared into a hole in the ground:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

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  2. Re:Global warming? by oneiron · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It was a joke. I smiled and almost chuckled. It seems you've invested a bit too much emotion into this issue. Next time the comments without the knee-jerk bitterness, please.

  3. Some do it more or less naturally by ChePibe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lake Jackson in North Florida, for example, does it every few years as ground water levels fluctuate. I'm sure that human intervention has something to do with these water levels, but isn't likely the only determining factor.

    It's kind of funny that, before you go bass fishing, you have to actually make sure there's water in the lake. Sometimes, it drains very quickly.

  4. Nice try by jsse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The picture to the right is more like a CG to me. No way I should believe your yet another Roswell-mistery.

    (just kidding ^_^)