See corresponding full YouTube video for more detailed information about these and other lowpoints of Earth: [ Ссылка ]

7 Lows with elevation and rank [x]:

Dead Sea, Asia, Israel & Jordan [1] -437 m (-1434 ft)
Lake Assal, Africa, Djibouti [2] -155 m (-509 ft)
Laguna del Carbón, South America, Argentina [3] -105 m (-344 ft)
Death Valley, North America, USA [4] -86 m (-282 ft)
Deep Lake, Antarctica [5] -51 m (-167 ft)
Caspian Sea, Europe, several countries [6] -28 m (-92 ft)
Lake Eyre, Australia [7] -15 m (-49 ft)

Keywords: Geography Viz, World Geography, Lowest elevation points by continent, Seven Lows, Lake Eyre, Caspian Sea, Deep Lake, Death Valley, Laguna del Carbón, Lake Assal, Dead Sea

Refs, credits, additional info:

World elevation basemap: Terrain image service layer from ESRI

Lake Eyre water level: [ Ссылка ]

Lake Eyre depths: NASA. 2020. Sizing up Remote Lakes. [ Ссылка ]

Lake Eyre photo: Lake Eyre 2004, ogwen, [ Ссылка ]

Lake Eyre formation: Schellart, W. P., & Spakman, W. 2015. Australian plate motion and topography linked to fossil New Guinea slab below Lake Eyre. Earth and Planetary Sci Letters, 421, 107-116. [ Ссылка ]

Lake Eyre formation: Magee, J. W., & Miller, G. H. 1998. Lake Eyre palaeohydrology from 60 ka to the present: beach ridges and glacial maximum aridity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 144, 307-329. [ Ссылка ]00124-2

Caspian Sea water level: [ Ссылка ].

Caspian Sea photo: NASA Johnson Space Center. 2018. [ Ссылка ]

Caspian Sea formation: Kaz’Min, V. G., & Verzhbitskii, E. V. 2011. Age and origin of the South Caspian Basin. Oceanology, 51, 131-140. [ Ссылка ]

Deep Lake water level: [ Ссылка ]

Deep Lake photo: Paul Hunt, antarctica.gov.au, [ Ссылка ]

Deep Lake formation: [ Ссылка ]

Death Valley elevation: USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED)

Death Valley photo: Joe Parks. 2011. [ Ссылка ]

Death Valley: NPS [ Ссылка ]

Laguna del Carbón elevation: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". [ Ссылка ]. 9/7/2023.

Laguna del Carbón formation: Echavarría, L. E., Schalamuk, I. B., & Etcheverry, R. O. (2005). Geologic and tectonic setting of Deseado Massif epithermal deposits, Argentina, based on El Dorado-Monserrat. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 19, 415-432. [ Ссылка ]

Laguna del Carbón photo: Extracted Google Maps photo

Lake Assal water level: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". [ Ссылка ]

Lake Assal photo: Watson P, ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p06cz0t8.jpg

Dead Sea water level: [ Ссылка ]

Dead Sea photo: لا روسا 2014. Dead Sea beach, jordan. [ Ссылка ]

Dead Sea formation: Aldaajani, T. Z., Almalki, K. A., & Betts, P. G. 2021. Plume versus slab-pull: example from the Arabian Plate. Frontiers in Earth Sci, 9, 700550. [ Ссылка ]

Dead Sea formation: Smit, J., Brun, J. P., Fort, X., Cloetingh, S. A. P. L., & Ben-Avraham, Z. 2008. Salt tectonics in pull-apart basins with application to the Dead Sea Basin. Tectonophysics, 449(1-4), 1-16. [ Ссылка ]

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