Lakes

thumb|upright=1.1|Lake Idro, an Italian [[prealpine lake of glacial origin situated largely within the province of Brescia (Lombardy) and in part in Trentino.]] thumb|upright=1.1|Sunset over Lake Michigan at Nordhouse Dunes in [[Manistee National Forest, Michigan, United States|alt=Sunset over Lake Michigan at Nordhouse Dunes in Manistee National Forest, Michigan, United States.]]

thumb|upright=1.3|Lake Hāwea, New Zealand

Pushkar is an ancient temple town located on the shore of Pushkar Lake near Ajmer City and headquarters of Pushkar tehsil in the Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is situated about northwest of Ajmer and about southwest of Jaipur. The town lies at an elevation of about 510 metres (1,670 ft) and is surrounded by hills on three sides, with Nag Pahar ("Snake Mountain") forming a natural boundary between Ajmer and Pushkar.

closed drainage basin that retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water

very rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of suffocating wildlife, livestock, and humans

thumbnail|300px|right|View of Ben Lomond across [[Loch Lomond]]

monster said to dwell in a lake

thumb In geology, a chott, shott, or shatt (; ) is a salt lake in Africa's Maghreb that stays dry for much of the year but receives some water in the winter. The elevation of a chott surface is controlled by the position of the water table and capillary fringe, with sediment deflation occurring when the water table falls and sediment accumulation occurring when the water table rises. They are formed—within variable shores—by the spring thaw from the Atlas mountain range, along with occasional rainwater or groundwater sources in the Sahara, such as the Bas Saharan Basin.

thumb|A billabong along Scrubby Creek at Berrinba, Queensland|Berrinba Wetlands, [[Queensland, 2014]] thumb|A billabong in the Northern Territory thumb|A billabong on the Goulburn River in Victoria In Australian English, a billabong ( ) is a small body of water, usually a permanent one created by a change in course or the flooding of a river. It is variously used to refer to oxbow lakes, dry creek beds that fill after heavy rainfall and channels of rivers that lead to dead-ends or backwaters. The term is likely borrowed from Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal Australian language of New South Wales.

separation of water in a lake into distinct layers

Paleolimnology (from Greek: παλαιός, palaios, "ancient", λίμνη, limne, "lake", and λόγος, logos, "study") is a scientific sub-discipline closely related to both limnology and paleoecology. Paleolimnological studies focus on reconstructing the past environments of inland waters (e.g., lakes and streams) using the geologic record, especially with regard to events such as climatic change, eutrophication, acidification, and internal ontogenic processes.

Areas dominated by surface waterbodies

place of punishment for evildoers in Christianity and ancient Egyptian religions; less literally, the infinite misery which must befall those who come short in loyalty to truth and duty

The maximum water level of a bank or shore

mean time that water (or some dissolved substance) spends in a particular lake

layer in which active turbulence has homogenized some range of depths.

trophy index based on the amount of biological productivity

upright=1.2|thumb|Mute swan (Cygnus olor) in a hydrosere community at sunrise. A hydrosere is a plant succession which occurs in an area of fresh water such as in oxbow lakes and kettle lakes. In time, an area of open freshwater will naturally dry out, ultimately becoming woodland. During this change, a range of different landtypes such as swamp and marsh will succeed each other.

220px |right |thumb |A beel near Aloa village, Tangail District, Bangladesh thumb|right|Halti Beel in Natore District right|thumb|Maguri Motapung Beel in [[Tinsukia district of Assam]] A beel (Bengali and Assamese: বিল) is a lake-like wetland with static water as opposed to moving water in rivers and canals - typically called in Bengali, in the Ganges - Brahmaputra flood plains of Bangladesh, and the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam. The term owes its origins to the word of the same pronunciation meaning "pond" and "lake" in the Bengali and Assamese languages.

craters in the seabed caused by gas and liquids erupting and streaming through the sediments

every type of water storage, drinkable or not

thumb|Detail of a map by Jacob Bartelz Veris drawn in 1641 of the Haarlem Lake, with a poem by Joost van den Vondel topped by a Dutch Lion fighting the Waterwolf as an allegory of the Dutch struggle against floods Waterwolf, or Water-wolf is a Dutch word that comes from the Netherlands, which refers to the tendency of lakes in low lying peaty land, sometimes previously worn-down by men digging peat for fuel, to enlarge or expand by flooding, thus eroding the lake shores, and potentially causing harm to infrastructure, or death. The term waterwolf is an example of zoomorphism, in which a non-li