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Are you talking about New Hampshire lakes? If so please explain.
NH has numerous mountain and lowland lakes scatter through the state as the areas north of about I90 across the country are part of the great north Woods. They range in size from 88 sq miles to a few Acres. Any areas of Texas with significant rainfall is usually close enough to the coast that they really don't have nice lakes.
NH has numerous mountain and lowland lakes scatter through the state as the areas north of about I90 across the country are part of the great north Woods. They range in size from 88 sq miles to a few Acres. Any areas of Texas with significant rainfall is usually close enough to the coast that they really don't have nice lakes.
The reason for the lack of large lakes in Texas is because it never fell under the cover of glaciers during the last Ice Age; no ice sheets to carve depressions in the land that would become lakes as sea-levels rose. So pretty much all low latitude regions on Earth will lack in large lakes. Indeed, most lakes on Earth are in the Northern Hemisphere between 40-75N, large amounts of land at high latitude that supported glacial coverage: https://www.livescience.com/48061-ho...-on-earth.html
Dry climate is not really a factor in this case. First of all, lakes can be found even in the desert that is Utah.
The Texas rainfall gradient radiates from east-west, not from the coast. Plenty of areas in the eastern half of the state get well over 34+ inches of rainfall annually (about in line with totals of many Northern cities):
Even correcting for evaporation, there still a large chunk of the state with a sufficiently wet climate:
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Cool Ponies in the upper south.
Delaware and Maryland aren't southern. Maryland we could argue about, Delaware just isn't and never was. The glorified Mason-Dixon line even excludes it.
The reason for the lack of large lakes in Texas is because it never fell under the cover of glaciers during the last Ice Age; no ice sheets to carve depressions in the land that would become lakes as sea-levels rose. So pretty much all low latitude regions on Earth will lack in large lakes. Indeed, most lakes on Earth are in the Northern Hemisphere between 40-75N, large amounts of land at high latitude that supported glacial coverage: https://www.livescience.com/48061-ho...-on-earth.html
Dry climate is not really a factor in this case. First of all, lakes can be found even in the desert that is Utah.
The Texas rainfall gradient radiates from east-west, not from the coast. Plenty of areas in the eastern half of the state get well over 34+ inches of rainfall annually (about in line with totals of many Northern cities):
Even correcting for evaporation, there still a large chunk of the state with a sufficiently wet climate:
The main reason Great Salt lake exists is because the Great Basin doesn't drain onto the ocean at all, Great Salt Lake simply evaporates. Compared to say Winnipesakee which is the main source for the Merrimack River and has significant outflow. Since there is no outlet very low precip can mantain the lake.
The main reason Great Salt lake exists is because the Great Basin doesn't drain onto the ocean at all, Great Salt Lake simply evaporates. Compared to say Winnipesakee which is the main source for the Merrimack River and has significant outflow. Since there is no outlet very low precip can mantain the lake.
The Great Salt Lake has tributaries that help maintain the water, or it would have completely dried up. But overall, it shows that even desert areas can maintain lakes under the right circumstances, meaning that dryness in areas of Texas shouldn't be an impediment (provided that the geography was ideal).
Regarding this lake discussion, I been trying to find out how many lakes there are in Texas. One source said 150, another 250 and the most I saw was 6,000. Only one major natural lake btw, Caddo lake.
Assuming the top figure of 6,000 lakes and ponds for Texas, that sounds like a lot right? Except New York State alone has over 7,600. Since Texas is more then 5 times larger then New York, that even if Texas had 5 times the amount of lakes, 30,000, she would still be behind New York proportionally! Lakes and Rivers - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
That is just how many lakes are in the Northeast and similar areas like the Upper Midwest. And if you really want to be blown away about lakes, take a look at a map of Ontario, especially northern Ontario.
Outside of Niagara Falls, there's nothing extraordinary about Northeastern US scenery. Texas by a long way.
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