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Lake, Sea, and Ocean (Hydrological)

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Definition

Standing bodies of volatile liquid that cover or fill a gravitational low (depression) up to a certain equipotential level on the surface or the subsurface of a planetary body.

Synonyms

Nonmagmatic liquid bodies

Subtypes of Liquid Bodies

  1. (1)

    Surface liquid bodies may be oceans, seas, and lakes of water (lacustrine features [Mars], crater lake, canyon lake [Mars]); hydrocarbon (lacustrine features [Titan]); or other volatiles as defined for that planetary body. These volatile bodies are composed of such molecules that tend to be easily evaporated or precipitated under surface conditions on a given planetary body, forming a closed cycle such as for H2O on the Earth or Mars and for hydrocarbons on Titan.

  2. (2)

    Subsurface volatile liquid bodies are, e.g., aquifers (Earth, Mars?) and alkanofers (Titan).

Subtypes of Lakes, Their Basins, and Sediments

Lake subtypes based on the supply of liquid and sediment to a basin providing a given accommodation space (Bohacs et al. 2000; Schon...

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  1. Planetary Science Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Henrik Hargitai

  2. Konkoly Thege Miklos Astronomical Institute, Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Ákos Kereszturi

  3. European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), P.O. BOX 78, 28961, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain

    Thomas Cornet

  4. Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Erzsébet Illés-Almár

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Hargitai, H., Kereszturi, Á., Cornet, T., Illés-Almár, E. (2014). Lake, Sea, and Ocean (Hydrological). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_639-1

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