Talk:Endorheic lake

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Title

I think that sink is a very poor choice of title for this article, as endorheic basins tend to occur in dryer climates, and sink is more appropriate for the "sink holes" of karst togography, or the bogs (or former bogs) of places like The Wash, where King John lost his treasure. Nothing is going to sink in a normal playa. --Bejnar (talk) 06:12, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

. . .and in Britain at least, geographers and cavers will use the term rather to describe a point in a riverbed in a karst area where the waters disappear into the ground, typically not in a fashion describable as a sinkhole - that term would be reserved for a roughly conical depression taking water. See example at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2192370 cheers Geopersona (talk) 05:57, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Needs rewriting

From article:

“Since dry lakes in sinks with hardpan have little penetration, they require more severe aridity/heat to eliminate collected water at a comparable rate as for a similar sink with appreciable penetration. Depending on losses, precipitation, and inflow (e.g., a spring, a tributary, or flooding); the temporal result of a lake in a sink may be a persistent lake, an intermittent lake, a playa lake (temporarily covered with water), or an ephemeral lake...”

Clearly, that needs cleaning up to make it readable by non-scientists.

Flagged the article with the technical template.

cluth (talk) 08:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Citations

This article only has one citation. In its current state with one citation, the article is not reliable. More citations from trustworthy sources should be added in order to give more information about the topic of the article, as well as make the article more reliable.

Emmadwilson (talk) 01:19, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have found several articles that contain information that might be beneficial to add to the article. Here is the selection I found:

Yecheli,Y.; Ronen D.; Berkowitz B.; Dershowitz W. S.; Hadad A. (1995) "Aquifer characteristics derived from the interaction between water levels of a terminal lake (Dead Sea) and an adjacent aquifer". Water Resources Research. 31(4): 839-902. https://doi.org/10.1029/94WR03154

Legesse, Dagnachew; Vallet-Coulomb, Christine; Gasse, Francois. (2004) "Analysis of the hydrological response of a tropical terminal lake, Lake Abiyata (Main Ethiopian Rift Valley) to changes in climate and human activities". Hydrological Processes. 18(3): 487-504. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.1334

Briere, Peter R. (2000) "Playa, playa lake, sabkha: Proposed definitions for old terms". Journal of Arid Environments. 45(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1006/jare.2000.0633

Osterkamp, W. R.; Wood, Warren W. (1987) "Playa-lake basins on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico: Part I. Hydrologic, geomorphic, and geologic evidence for their development". The Geological Society of America Bulletin. 99(2): 215-223. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1987)99<215:PBOTSH>2.0.CO;2

Osterkamp, W. R.; Wood, Warren W. (1987) "Playa-lake basins on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico: Part II. A hydrologic model and mass-balance arguments for their development". The Geological Society of America Bulletin. 99(2): 224-230. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1987)99<224:PBOTSH>2.0.CO;2

Hellweger, Ferdinand L.; Maidment, David R. (1999) "Definition and connection of hydrologic elements using geographic data". Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 4(1): 10-18. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(1999)4:1(10)

Emmadwilson (talk) 18:50, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yapiyev, Vadim; Sagintayev, Zhanay; Inglezakis, Vassilis J.; Samarkhanov, Kanat; Verhoef, Anne. (2017). "Essentials of Endorheic Basins and Lakes: A Review in the Context of Current and Future Water Resource Management and Mitigation Activities in Central Asia". Water. 9(10): 798. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9100798

Emmadwilson (talk) 03:04, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]