Fluvial Landform (11.Endorheic Basin )

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Caspian Sea

• An endorheic basin is a closed drainage basin.

• That retains water.

• Allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as ;

                                   rivers

                                   oceans

• Water accrued in a drainage basin eventually flows out through rivers or streams.

• An endorheic basin, rain that falls within it does not flow out.

•  The bottom of such a basin is typically occupied by a salt lake or salt pan.

Great Salt Lake

• Endorheic water bodies include some of the largest lakes in the world, such as;

                      Aral Sea
                     Caspian Sea

• Endorheic lakes are bodies of water do not flow into the sea.

• Endorheic lakes are usually in the interior of a body mass, far from an ocean.

• Watersheds are often confined by natural geologic land formations .

• The inland water flows into dry watersheds .

• endorheic lakes are usually more sensitive to environmental pollutants inputs than water bodies that have access to oceans.

Uureg Nuur

examples:

• Lake Tanganyika in Africa.
• Lake Lahontan in North America.
• Salar de Atacama, in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
• Lake Trasimeno, in Italy.
• Lake Velence, in Hungary.
• Bolsón de Mapimí, in northern Mexico.
• Willcox Playa of southern Arizona
• Qattara Depression, in Egypt.
• Chott Melrhir, in Algeria.

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