1. Appendix B: Types of Lakes
Getting to the Core:
Understanding Lakes through Sediment Coring

2. Warm-Up
Share a fun fact about lakes that you learned yesterday with the person sitting next to you.
How many lakes and ponds do you think there are in the world?

3. How many lakes in the world?
Source: Downing et al. (2006). The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments. Limnology and Oceanography, 51(5).

4. How many lakes in the world?
304 million!
Source: Downing et al. (2006). The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments. Limnology and Oceanography, 51(5).

5. Types of Lakes
Glacial Lakes Tectonic/Rift Lakes Crater Lakes Impact (asteroid) Volcanic River Erosion Other

6. Glacial Lakes

7. Glacial Lakes

8. Glacial Lakes

9. Tectonic/Rift Lakes

10. Crater Lake – Volcanic

11. Crater Lake – Volcanic

12. Crater Lake – Impact

13. Man-Made Lakes

14. Man-Made Lakes

15. Natural Dam
Before
After

16. River – Plunge Lake

17. River – Oxbow Lake

18. Other – Playa Lake

19. Other – Solution Lake

20. Credit
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