Earth’s 7 Lowest Points by Continent (“Seven Lows”)
See corresponding full YouTube video for more detailed information about these and other lowpoints of Earth: • Earth’s 7 Lowest Points by Continent (“Sev...
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: https://web.archive.org/web/201205232...
Lake Eyre depths: NASA. 2020. Sizing up Remote Lakes. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...
Lake Eyre photo: Lake Eyre 2004, ogwen, https://web.archive.org/web/201610270...
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.0...
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(98...
Caspian Sea water level: https://cabar.asia/en/caspian-sea-pas....
Caspian Sea photo: NASA Johnson Space Center. 2018. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Caspian Sea formation: Kaz’Min, V. G., & Verzhbitskii, E. V. 2011. Age and origin of the South Caspian Basin. Oceanology, 51, 131-140. https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143701101...
Deep Lake water level: https://researchdata.edu.au/water-lev...
Deep Lake photo: Paul Hunt, antarctica.gov.au, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Deep Lake formation: https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/cha...
Death Valley elevation: USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED)
Death Valley photo: Joe Parks. 2011. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Death Valley: NPS https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature...
Laguna del Carbón elevation: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". https://geology.com/below-sea-level/. 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2005...
Laguna del Carbón photo: Extracted Google Maps photo
Lake Assal water level: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". https://geology.com/below-sea-level/
Lake Assal photo: Watson P, ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p06cz0t8.jpg
Dead Sea water level: https://icl-group-sustainability.com/...
Dead Sea photo: لا روسا 2014. Dead Sea beach, jordan. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.70...
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2007....