Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Russian Lake Baikal: another version of the Su Wu Shepherd

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, the global freshwater impoundment volume accounted for 1/5, for all the world's people drinking 40 years.

Lake Baikal is a freshwater lake, but the life of seals and other marine animal; the lake is located in frigid zone, but also can find a lot of tropical, subtropical species. These creatures come to Lake Baikal, is still an unsolved mystery.

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The Mongol descendants yellow skin, black eyes life lake, they still retain their way of life, there is another version of the "Su Wu shepherd" story.

Mention Russia Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, a lot of people will immediately think of the geography book "the deepest lake in the world" to describe -- indeed, only 6 of the depth of the lake more than 500 meters, and the average depth of 744 meters of Lake Baikal, the depths of up to 1637 meters.

The total water storage in Lake Baikal more than 23000 cubic kilometers, than the wholeNorth AmericaMore than five great lakes or Nordic Baltic Sea water. In other popular words, only the Lake Baikal lake, can let the whole world people drinking 40 years.

According to research, "Baikal" comes from the Turkic language, meaning "a lake", in Russia, it enjoys "Siberia pearl" the laudatory name. In addition to the "depth" as everyone knows, the Lake Baikal is the world's one of the oldest lakes, which formed about 25000000 years ago in a violent earthquake.

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