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No. Check the articles again. The names are similar - but they're different locations.
Karakul Lake is in China.
Kara-Kul impact crater and lake is in Tajikistan. It's an easy word to make in lots of languages apparently. There's also a
Kara crater in Russia. And KARA is a former radio station in Silicon Valley. I'm sure there's a long list of other similar examples. :-)
Ikluft (
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06:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Question: Where does the water from the lake come from?
According to
BBC, clouds get blocked by the surrounding mountains, so it doesn't rain here. Then, where does the water come from? Also, it's been around for millions of years. Wouldn't it have evaporated away without rains? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
104.162.197.70 (
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15:39, 10 February 2019 (UTC)reply
The same caption in the source you mention says that it does get some rainfall, and you can see from the photos there that the mountains ringing the lake are snow-covered -- so obviously there is some precipitation, and meltwater likely flows into the lake as well. --
Elphion (
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04:18, 12 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Add Crater Infobox?
Someone may want to apply crater template
or lake may be sufficient.
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According to the German article, new science says that it is not an impact crater but a tectonic fault. The quote with references:
Neuere Untersuchungen zeigen jedoch, dass es sich tatsächlich um einen durch Extensionsbewegungen entstandenen tektonischen
Graben handelt.[1] Rezent befindet sich das Grabensystem in NW-SE gerichteter transtensionaler Ausdehnung.[2]
^William H. Amidon, Scott A. Hynek (2010-10), "Exhumational history of the north central Pamir: PAMIR EXHUMATION", Tectonics, vol. 29, no. 5,
doi:
10.1029/2009TC002589{{
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^M. R. Strecker, W. Frisch, M. W. Hamburger, L. Ratschbacher, S. Semiletkin (1995-10), "Quaternary deformation in the Eastern Pamirs, Tadzhikistan and Kyrgyzstan", Tectonics, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1061–1079,
doi:
10.1029/95TC00927{{
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