The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 181National Geographic Society., 1992 - Geography |
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I tell you all this now , at the beginning of my story , to help you understand why the Baikalsk Cellulose - Paper Plant was ever built on the shores of this great lake . And how it is that a strong man like Sergei Vasiliev , 36 summers ...
I tell you all this now , at the beginning of my story , to help you understand why the Baikalsk Cellulose - Paper Plant was ever built on the shores of this great lake . And how it is that a strong man like Sergei Vasiliev , 36 summers ...
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So immense is Lake Baikal that if all its 336 tributaries dried up tomorrow , its volume - some 23,000 cubic kilometers of water - could keep the Angara River flowing close to 400 years . On a distant shore I detected , after a long ...
So immense is Lake Baikal that if all its 336 tributaries dried up tomorrow , its volume - some 23,000 cubic kilometers of water - could keep the Angara River flowing close to 400 years . On a distant shore I detected , after a long ...
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Compared with Baikal , Lake Tahoe is a desert , " says Grachev's colleague Charles Goldman from the University of ... Unlike lakes in hot climates , Baikal mixes thoroughly ; as its cold waters sink , they carry oxygen even to the ...
Compared with Baikal , Lake Tahoe is a desert , " says Grachev's colleague Charles Goldman from the University of ... Unlike lakes in hot climates , Baikal mixes thoroughly ; as its cold waters sink , they carry oxygen even to the ...
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