Are there subterranean lakes that are lower in sea level than the Dead Sea?

star_gazer

The Dead Sea is located in the Syro-African Rift, a 4000-mile fault line in the earth's crust. The lowest point of dry land on earth is the shoreline of the Dead Sea at 1300 feet below sea level. http://www.bibleplaces.com/deadsea.htm Sep 10 09, 12:20 PM

unclerick

I am asking about underground lakes. Like the ones found in caves or perhaps ones that have been located by sensing devices of some sort. Sep 10 09, 12:34 PM

serpa

Yes. Here's one. ScienceDaily (Dec. 24, 2008) — Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth's surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water, according to a team of Penn State researchers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219172031.htm My answer just says below the earth's surface not below sea level. Sep 10 09, 1:16 PM

zbeckabee

I keep running into the same thing star_gazer posted. I think we should remain mindfull that there is a difference between the depth of a lake's surface and the lake's actual depth. Lake Vostok -- In January 1998, the collaborative ice-drilling project between Russia, the United States, and France at the Russian Vostok station in East Antarctica yielded the deepest ice core ever recovered, reaching a depth of 3,623 m. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok.html http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_56791.htm Miles Below Antarctic Ice: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/story3_2_01b.html In addition, I'll add: "We do not know to what depth water penetrates the earth. Artesian wells have been bored in recent years to the depth of four thousand feet." http://www.mineralguide.org/underground-streams-and-lakes.html Neat pictures of various underground waters: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/underground-lakes-river/2190 Sep 10 09, 1:17 PM

serpa

Yes. Here's one. ScienceDaily (Dec. 24, 2008) — Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth's surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water, according to a team of Penn State researchers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219172031.htm Sep 10 09, 1:56 PM