Lake Powell · Landforms
Lake Powell’s branching blue water follows a canyon landscape across Utah and Arizona. Its changing shoreline is striking, but understanding the lake requires separating…
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Lakes
Lake Mead’s water level is often reported as a single number, but that number cannot tell the whole story. A surface elevation, a stored…
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Lake Como · Lakes
Lake Como’s familiar waterfront views can hide its most important geographical feature: the lake divides into three long arms. Locate those branches, and the…
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Maps & geography skills
Tarn Hows looks like a quiet lake framed by trees and low hills. Yet the view combines several different stories: older rocks shaped by…
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Lakes
A map of Windermere can be surprisingly easy to misread: the name appears on both the water and an inland town. Separating those places…
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Maps & geography skills
Coniston Water looks like a narrow blue corridor between the fells, but its geography is more than a scenic outline. Reading the basin, its…
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Landforms
From Tarn Hows, Black Crag offers a different way to understand the southern Lake District: a climb above the wooded water into a wider…
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Maps & geography skills
Haleakalā’s summit can look like a separate world from Maui’s wet coastal valleys. Reading the park as a mountain landscape, rather than one sunrise…
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Lake Tahoe · Lakes
Lake Tahoe’s geography involves three different boundaries: the shoreline, the California–Nevada state line and the high ground separating its drainage basin from neighboring valleys.…
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Moraine Lake · Lakes
A blue-green lake beneath a wall of peaks can seem easy to understand from a photograph, yet its color, basin and access each tell…
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Lakes
A photograph of Lake Braies captures its steep mountain backdrop, but it cannot explain how the basin formed or how its depth was measured.…
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Seas & oceans
Summer winds can bring cooler water to parts of a tropical coast rather than simply warming the sea. In the Arabian Sea, that seasonal…
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