Lake Baikal is the oldest, deepest, and the most voluminous lake on earth. But it is a pale shadow of its own former superlatives. At one time lake Baikal was probably close to 30000 feet deep, nearly as deep as the deepest part of ocean floor.. but over its 30 million years around 25000 feet of sediments accumulated in the lake basin, leaving the lake “only” 6000 feet deep.
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