دانلود کتاب دریاچه ها – تولد، زندگی و مرگ آنها

Pick a lake, any lake. It could be the one you are sitting next to right now or the one you visited last summer. Or it could be a random lake chosen by simply pointing your finger at a map. Whatever lake you choose, large or small, near or far, two things about it are true. First, it didn’t used to be there, and second, someday it will be gone. Most lakes are born of violence. Be it the slow-motion violence of glaciers, the most prodigious of lake-builders, or the considerably more rapid violence of volcanoes, earthquakes, or (rarely) meteor impacts, most of these water-filled depressions that we call lakes become a part of our planet’s topography via the application of incredible force.