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100-foot deep Andes lake disappears

POSTED: 5:18 p.m. EDT, June 21, 2007
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Lake disappeared between March and May
Ice chunks that floated on lake now lie on rocks
Scientists say no earthquakes that could have caused cracks in lake bottom
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why.

Park rangers at Bernardo O'Higgins National Park said they found a 100-feet-deep crater in late May where the lake had been in March. Several large pieces of ice that used to float atop the water also were spotted.

"The lake had simply disappeared," Juan Jose Romero, head of Chile's National Forest Service in the southernmost region of Magallanes, said Wednesday. "No one knows what happened."

A group of geologists and other experts will be sent to the area 1,250 miles southeast of Santiago in the next few days to investigate, Romero said.

One theory is the water disappeared through cracks in the lake bottom into underground fissures. But experts do not know why the cracks would have appeared because there have been no earthquakes reported in the area recently, Romero said.

A river that flowed out of the lake was reduced to a trickle.

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Maybe the lake was abducted by aliens. ??



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Hmm hmm.gif

This one is interesting. I shall consult the X-Files and see if there's anything about it in there!

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Yeah, I am a little stumped on how an entire lake disappears!weirdface

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A large coporation swooped in and is going to start selling Chillean lake water in bottles....


LOL!!!!

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I blame it on Global Warming....where's Al Gore????

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darleneapd wrote:

I blame it on Global Warming....where's Al Gore????



HAHAHA!! It disappeared in like a month! I doubt that was Global warmingsmile I don't think it was fissures in the ground either. If it were, where did the fissures go?hmm



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Maybe the water is not really lost . . . maybe its just displaced.



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Well my theory is that an incredibly thirsty animal drank it all blankstare.gif

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