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Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydrography https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by WithinReason 3mo ago
Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydrography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydr...
[...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth.
- card_zero 3mo agoOh right. Basically China has its own tectonic plate, with Baikal on the rift, top left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_plate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_plate I did not know that.
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