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Large Lakes
. Ed(S): Tilzer, Max M.; Serruya, Colette
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Paperback. Editor(s): Tilzer, Max M.; Serruya, Colette. Series: Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Num Pages: 691 pages, 57 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PSAF; RBGB; RBKC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1059.
The vast majority of the world's lakes are small in size and short lived in geological terms. Only 253 of the thousands of lakes on this planet have surface areas larger than 500 square kilometers. At first sight, this statistic would seem to indicate that large lakes are relatively unimportant on a global scale; in fact, however, large lakes contain the bulk of the liquid surface freshwater of the earth. Just Lake Baikal and the Laurentian Great Lakes alone contain more than 38% of the world's total liquid freshwater. Thus, the large lakes of the world accentuate an important feature ... Read more
The vast majority of the world's lakes are small in size and short lived in geological terms. Only 253 of the thousands of lakes on this planet have surface areas larger than 500 square kilometers. At first sight, this statistic would seem to indicate that large lakes are relatively unimportant on a global scale; in fact, however, large lakes contain the bulk of the liquid surface freshwater of the earth. Just Lake Baikal and the Laurentian Great Lakes alone contain more than 38% of the world's total liquid freshwater. Thus, the large lakes of the world accentuate an important feature ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
691
Condition
New
Series
Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience
Number of Pages
691
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642840791
SKU
V9783642840791
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