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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

extreme water

Extreme Water
place region distinction
Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the most voluminous body of water on Earth with a volume of 674,052,000,000,000,000 cubic meters (674 Pm3), approximately half of all water on Earth. The Pacific Ocean is also the most extensive body of water with a surface area of 164,015,000,000,000 square meters (164.015 Tm2 = 32.2% of the Earth's surface), and the deepest body of water with a maximum depth of 10,911 meters.
Caspian Sea Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Russia The Caspian Sea is the most voluminous lake on Earth with a volume of 78,200,000,000,000 cubic meters (78.2 Tm3). The Caspian Sea is also the most extensive lake on Earth with a surface area of 374,000,000,000 square meters (374 Gm2). The Caspian Sea is a landlocked remnant of the Mesozoic Tethys Sea which also encompassed what are today the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Aral Sea.
Lake Baikal Russia Lake Baikal is the most voluminous body of fresh water on Earth with a volume of 23,000,000,000,000 cubic meters (23.0 Tm3). Lake Baikal is also the deepest lake on Earth with a maximum depth of 1741 meters and a mean depth of 730 meters.
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron United States and Canada Lake Michigan and Lake Huron form the most extensive body of fresh water on Earth with a surface area of 117,318,000,000 square meters (117.32 Gm2). Although usually considered two separate lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron maintain a consistent surface level and are thus two lobes of one common lake.
Amazon Peru and Brazil The Amazon has the greatest flow of any river on Earth with an average discharge rate of 219,000 cubic meters per second into the Atlantic Ocean. The Amazon has the largest drainage basin of any river with an area of 6,915,000,000,000 square meters (6.915 Tm2).
Nile Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt The Nile is the longest river on Earth with a total length of 6,695 kilometers from the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea.
Salto Angel Venezuela Salto Angel is the tallest waterfall on Earth with an uninterrupted drop of 807 meters and a total drop of 978 meters

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