Lake Lisan, the Glossary
Lake Lisan was a prehistoric lake that existed between 70,000 and 12,000 BP in the Jordan Rift Valley in the Near East.[1]
Table of Contents
24 relations: Arabic, Before Present, Beit She'an, Bronze Age, Calcareous, Dead Sea, Europe, Holocene, Jordan Rift Valley, Jordan Valley, Kebaran culture, Lake, Lake Beisan, Lartet, Levant, Loam, Marl, Natufian culture, Near East, Pleistocene, Precipitation, Sea of Galilee, Sediment, Silt.
- Former lakes of Asia
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Before Present
Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.
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Beit She'an
Beit She'an (בֵּית שְׁאָן), also Beth-shean, formerly Beisan (بيسان), is a town in the Northern District of Israel.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Calcareous
Calcareous is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky.
Dead Sea
The Dead Sea (al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or label; Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Jordan Rift Valley
The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley also called the Syro-African Depression, is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and the West Bank. Lake Lisan and Jordan Rift Valley are Great Rift Valley.
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Jordan Valley
The Jordan Valley (Ghawr al-Urdunn; Emek HaYarden) forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley. Lake Lisan and Jordan Valley are Great Rift Valley.
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Kebaran culture
The Kebaran culture, also known as the 'Early Near East Epipalaeolithic', is an archaeological culture of the Eastern Mediterranean dating to c. 23,000 to 15,000 Before Present (BP).
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Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
Lake Beisan
Lake Beisan was a prehistoric lake that existed from ca. Lake Lisan and lake Beisan are former lakes of Asia and Great Rift Valley.
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Lartet
Lartet is a surname.
Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Loam
Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size >), silt (particle size >), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size These proportions can vary to a degree, however, and result in different types of loam soils: sandy loam, silty loam, clay loam, sandy clay loam, silty clay loam, and loam.
Marl
Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt.
Natufian culture
Natufian culture is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago.
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Near East
The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, specifically the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace, and Egypt.
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
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Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee (יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel.
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Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
Silt
Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.
See also
Former lakes of Asia
- Aral Sea
- Ayding Lake
- Boeung Kak
- Dabasun Nor, Inner Mongolia
- Lake Bandung
- Lake Beisan
- Lake Borobudur
- Lake Furukawanuma
- Lake Karachay
- Lake Lisan
- Lake Tengger
- Lop Nur
- Mundafan
- Paleo Kathmandu Lake
- The Long Tank, Madras
- Ulaan Lake
- West Siberian Glacial Lake