Baikal on old maps

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Previously believed that the lake. Baikal is not on the maps in the recent past, because did not find its modern outlines on old maps of Tartary. But it is like a lowland flooded by a river. Those. there is a river flowing in and the same Angara river - flowing out in one straight line:

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Now on the southern bank, opposite the Angara, there is a small river Snezhnaya (and even then, it is not so long in its channel and, judging by the old maps, does not fit). The Selenga River looks more like a southern tributary, but it is to the east:

It is possible that ancient Baikal is just this water area

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See where the Angara River begins. Not from the Shaman-stone, as many think, but in Yakutia. In the region of Severobaikalsk and Nizhneangarsk, it flows into Baikal in its northern part, and flows out again in the south. Not my name.

This river, the Upper Angara, flows into Baikal from the north and east of Severobaikalsk. It is possible that the names of the rivers speak for themselves. The Angara River and the Upper Angara River were once one river in historical times, when people already lived here. But the fast and catastrophic fracture process led to the formation of Lake Baikal in its modern shape. Indeed, it is known that many rivers flow along faults.

Map of Baikal, sea, lake or Angarsk depression. 1806 g. Maps are not inserted, so you can see them only by clicking on the link. Those. at the beginning of the 19th century. already knew that Baikal is a huge rift, a failure.

What does geology say about Baikal?

The origin of Lake Baikal still causes scientific controversy. Scientists traditionally determine the age of the lake at 25-35 million years. This fact also makes Baikal a unique natural object, since most lakes, especially of glacial origin, live on average for 10-15 thousand years, and then they are filled with silty sediments and become swampy.

However, there is also a version about the youth of Lake Baikal, put forward by Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences A. V. Tatarinov in 2009, which received indirect confirmation during the second stage of the expedition "Mirov" on Lake Baikal. In particular, the activity of mud volcanoes at the bottom of the lake allows scientists to assume that the modern coastline of Lake Baikal is only 8 thousand years old, and the deep-water part is 150 thousand years old.

There is no doubt only that the lake is located in a rift depression and is similar in structure, for example, to the Dead Sea basin. Some researchers explain the formation of Baikal by its location in the zone of a transform fault, others suggest the presence of a mantle plume under the lake, and still others explain the formation of the depression by passive rifting as a result of the collision of the Eurasian plate and Hindustan. Be that as it may, the transformation of Baikal continues to this day - earthquakes constantly occur in the vicinity of the lake.

Changes in the outline of Lake Baikal can be traced through the map of Remezov:

North is below. Most likely, the Svyatoi Nos ridge was connected to Olkhon Island. And not so ancient Baikal is the southern part of the modern lake.

It is quite possible that, like the Caspian Sea (Caspian + Aral), Baikal is not a multimillion-year-old lake. Moreover, scientists began to hint at this as well.