how was the lake of the ozarks formed?
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The Lake of the Ozarks was formed by placing Bagnell Dam across the Osage River in the late 1920's/early 1930's.
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This is a very common name for caves, so it is hard to be certain of which Crystal Cave you are asking about. There is a Crystal Cave near Cherokee County that is part of a cave preserve that is most certainly a natural cave. It is gated and locked and not open to the public as far as I know. I can find no references to a "Cristal" Cave. \n\nIt is not uncommon for a cave to have formed during a period of time many thousands or even millions of years ago when the climate of a the area was much different than it is today. For example, during the Eocene about 38 million years ago the area where Oklahoma is now had a paratropical climate. (see: http://www.scotese.com/earlyeoc1.htm)\nThere are many caves in desert climates that formed long before the area became a desert. Consider some of the spectacular caves in southern Arizona such as Kartchner Caverns:\nhttp://www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/parkhtml/kartchner.html\n\nIn the northwest part of Oklahoma there are many caves formed in gypsum. In other parts of the state there are caves in limestone. The hardness of the rock has nothing to do with the formation of a cave. In both limestone and gypsum, caves are formed by dissolution of the rock by water. In limestone caves this process is aided by carbonic acid which forms in overlying soil when rainfall dissolved carbon dioxide. This acidic water attacks the limestone and forms caves.  Limestone frequently has fractures and joints within the rock that are the initial paths of water flow, and as these enlarge they form connected paths that often grow into a cave. If the process goes on for enough time, the limestone dissolves away completely. However, in many cases the cave forms and then climatic changes or changes such as geologic uplift bring cave formation to a halt. The cave is preserved and is no longer actively forming. \n\nTo see some more informatin about cave formation:\nhttp://www.speleogenesis.info/\n\nHere is an animation that illustrates perfectly how a cave can form and then become dry:\nhttp://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1405/es1405page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization
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Illinois was almost completely wiped of any high elevating hills or mountains during the Ice Age.  However, there is a small section of the state located in the northwest that was missed by the glacier activity.  These hills are high in elevation for a plains state like Illinois, but aren't tall enough to be classified as mountains.  As far as I know, there isn't even a name for that chain of mounds.\n\nSorry, I know this probably isn't of much help...
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A lake is a body of water completely surrounded by land
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Great Salt Lake \n \nSatellite Photo of the Great Salt Lake as it looked in the summer of 2003 \nThe Great Salt Lake as seen looking north towards Antelope Island from Sunset Beach \nGreat Salt Lake from airspace over Salt Lake CityGreat Salt Lake is an endorheic saline lake in northern Utah, much saltier than the ocean. It is the remnant of the prehistoric pluvial Lake Bonneville in the Great Basin. It covers an area of around 1,700 square miles, but this is subject to substantial fluctuations. The lake has very high salinity because it has no outlet to the sea. Three feeder rivers deposit around 1.1 million tons of minerals in it each year; the balance of evaporated water is mineral-free, concentrating the lake further.\n\n\nGeography\nSalt Lake City and its suburbs are located to the southeast and east of the lake, between the lake and the Wasatch Mountains, but land around the north and west shores are almost uninhabited. The Great Salt Lake Salt Flats lie to the west, and the Oquirrh Mountains rise to the south.\n\nThe Great Salt Lake is fed by three major rivers and several minor streams. The Bear River starts in the Uinta Mountains and flows in to the northeast arm of the lake. The Weber River also starts in the Uinta Mountains and flows into east edge of the lake. The Jordan River starts at freshwater Utah Lake and flows into the southeast corner of the lake. A railroad line—the Lucin Cutoff—runs across the lake, crossing the southern end of Promontory Peninsula. The mostly-solid causeway supporting the railway divides the lake into three portions: northeast arm, northwest arm and southern. This causeway prevents the normal mixing of the waters of the lake due to it's lack of water passages, and since there are no rivers, with the exception of a few minor streams, flowing directly into the northwest arm (also called "Gunnison Bay"), it is now noticeably saltier than the rest of the lake.\n\nWater levels have been recorded since 1843, averaging about 1,280 m (~4,200 ft) above sea level. Since the Great Salt Lake is a shallow lake with gently sloping shores around all edges except on the south side, small variations in the water level can greatly affect the extent of the shoreline. During low levels, the lake is difficult to approach because it is fringed by long and sometimes quite odorous mud flats.\n\nBecause the water level is variable, it can rise dramatically in wet years and fall during drought years. The water level is also affected by the amount of water flow diverted for agricultural and urban uses. The Jordan and Weber rivers are particularly diverted for other uses. In the 1880s Grove Karl Gilbert predicted that the lake — then in the middle of many years of recession — would virtually disappear except for a small remnant between the islands. Record high levels in the 1980s caused massive property damage for owners on the eastern side, and started to erode the base of Interstate 80. In response, the state built pumps on the western side of the lake to pump dangerously high water out into the west desert, but as of 2004 these pumps are dry and miles away from the lake's shore. They are, however, maintained in the event the lake rises to those levels again.\n\n\nIslands\nThere are ten named islands in the Great Salt Lake. From largest to smallest, they are Antelope, Stansbury, Fremont, Carrington, Dolphin, Cub, Badger, Strongs Knob, Gunnison, Hat (Bird) and Egg Island. Dolphin, Gunnison, Cub, and Strongs Knob are in the northwest arm, and the rest are in the southern portion. There are also a number of small, unnamed islands whose size and number greatly depends on the level of the lake.\n\nAntelope and Fremont Islands are extensions of the Oquirrh mountain range. Stansbury Island and other smaller islands are extensions of the Stansbury mountain range. The lake is deepest in the area between these island chains, about 10.7 m (~35 ft) deep at the 1,280 m (~4,200 ft) level. The lake ave
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there are several dealers at the Lake of the Ozarks, also a big one in Rolla ( i only know this because my parents jsut went shopping for a used camping trailer)
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I was told that it was becuase of the mountains.The ice or snow of mountains would melt into water,forming small rivers that turn into more and more bigger rivers{or something like that} that turn into oceans."Where does the snow of a mountain or ice of a mountain come from?",you might ask.That I dont know.
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Arkansas had alot of troops to join the confederacy. Not alot happened in Arkansas but if it were not for the Confederacy it would not be a state. It was started by the confederacy. It was a territory before 1860.
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The Grand Coulee Dam. See http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001336.html
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"The Great Salt Lake is a hallow body of saltwater in Northwestern Utah. It is the largest salt lake in North America. It is the remnant of Lake Bonneville that once covered the Great Basin that was 1,000 feet deep.\n...\nThe last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago Lake Bonneville formed. It was an ancient lake the size of Michigan. The size of the lake covered 1/3 of present day Utah and parts of the neighboring states. As the lake receded the amount of evaporation was higher than the inflow. The sea levels are marked by former beachlines on the mountains and by rich soil deposits on the terraces on the east. When the evaporation was not as high it left behind bathtub rings on the mountains indicating the sea level. As evaporation continued the lake decreased in size. As the evaporation continued the lake has become saltier."
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bubles are formed because the air trapped b/w  the layers of water molecules surface out.due to surface tension of water, a thin film of water traps this water. that's how bubles are formed.
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(m)\n\n\nDiscovered by John Speke in 1858\n\nLake Victoria is located in Eastern Africa, resting between the countries of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Covering approximately 68,800 km squared (about the size of Ireland)(3.), Lake Victoria is among the largest of freshwater bodies in the world, second only to Lake Superior. Although the lake has a massive surface area, the depth of the lake is relatively shallow. With an average depth of 40 meters, and a maximum depth nearing 80 meters Lake Victoria contains only about 15% of the total volume of water that is found in its neighboring lake, Lake Tanganyika. \n\nSpeaking in geographical terms, Lake Victoria is extremely young. The lake was formed when a recent up-thrust of the Western side of the Victorian Basin reversed the flow of the rivers that once flowed away from the basin. Scientists are saying that the lake could have been formed as early as 25,000 to 35,000 years ago. Within that time, it is believed that the lake may have dried up entirely between 10,000 to 14,000 years ago. This means that the 300+ know Haplochromines that evolved in Lake Victoria did so in an astoundingly short period of time. Even more amazing, they have all evolved from a single species, and have "less genetic variation than the human species." (Coleman) \n\nDiscovered by John Speke in 1858, Lake Victoria was believed to be the source of the Nile River. Lake Victoria started to experience drastic changes once "Henry Stanley circumnavigated the lake to confirm Speke's claim" (TED Case Studies) in 1875. Within a few decades the English had built a railroad through the area, and started to clear large areas of the lake's forest for farming teas, sugar, tobacco, and cotton. As local populations grew, the people turned to the lake as means to satisfy a growing demand for a tilapia known as Ngege. With the new English gill nets being used, the population of Ngege was quickly decimated to a commercially unsustainable level.
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The Rocky Mountains are in Montana, Idaho, Colorado, and other SW states.  The Ozarks are in Missouri.
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During the Permian period, changes in the earth's surface that had begun in the preceding Carboniferous period reached a climax. At the close of the Carboniferous, large areas of E North America were dry land. In the Lower Permian, sandy shales, sandstones, and thin limestones of the Dunkard formation (formerly called the Upper Barren measures) were deposited in the remaining submerged areas of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, but the continued rising of the land soon put an end to deposition. The Dunkard is the last Paleozoic formation of the E United States. More extensive deposits were formed in the West. Parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska were covered by an arm of the sea or possibly by one or more salt lakes or lagoons, now represented by masses of salt or gypsum in layers separated and overlaid by red beds. There are important Permian salt mines at Hutchinson and Lyons in Kansas and gypsum mines in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The longest marine submergence of the Lower Permian in North America was in W Texas and SE New Mexico, where there is a system of marine limestones and sandstones 4,000 to 6,000 ft (1,200-1,800 m) thick. The Cordilleran region was also submerged; here marine beds are more common toward the west, and land sediments, especially red beds, toward the east. The red beds are generally considered to be indicative of increasingly arid conditions in Permian times. \n\nIn Europe, the Lower Permian, or Rotliegendes [red layers], was marked principally by erosion from the Paleozoic Alps of the Carboniferous into the low-lying land to the north; the formations are chiefly shale and sandstone, with some conglomerate and breccia. Red is a prominent color for the beds. The Pangaea supercontinent formed from an aggregation of all continents at this time. \n\nThe Permian and late Carboniferous of the Southern Hemisphere were radically different from those of the Northern Hemisphere. Australia, S Africa, and South America experienced a series of glacial periods, as is shown by the presence of tillite and of conspicuous striations of the underlying rock formations. This condition prevailed also in India. Paleozoic glaciation in North America is suggested by the Squantum tillite near Boston, Mass. This glaciation and the aridity of which the red beds seem to be the result are the two most strongly marked characteristics of the Permian period. \n\nThe Upper Permian \n\nIn the Upper Permian practically all of North America was above sea level, and the continent was larger than at present. Toward the close of the Upper Permian the greatest earth disturbance of the Paleozoic era thrust up the Appalachian Mts. In Europe, the Upper Permian was a period of more extensive marine invasion; the Zechstein formation is predominantly limestone, though it includes rich deposits of copper, salt, gypsum, and potash. The Upper Permian beds of Germany were long the chief source of the world's potash. \n\nEvolution of Plant and Animal Life \n\nMany marine animals became extinct during the Permian, but there was at the same time an evolution to more modern types, a marked change in the insects, and a notable increase in numbers and varieties of reptiles mainly because of the continental changes. Among plants, Lepidodendron and Sigillaria became rare, but ferns and conifers persisted. The widely distributed "seed fern," Glossopteris, which was apparently successful in resisting glacial conditions, was the most conspicuous development in the Permian flora. The presence of Glossopteris in South America, Antarctica, Australia, and S Africa is a strong argument favoring the interconnection of these land masses in a large supercontinent during Permian time. The end of the Permian is marked in the fossil record by a mass extinction . \n\nGo to this website to find the Upper level of the Geological Time Scale: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-geotimeTABLE.html\n\n\n\nGlad to Help!
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It forms due to diffraction of light by the small water droplets in fog. It's formation is similar to formation of the rainbow.
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The Rockies were formed in the Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic eras during the Cordilleran orogeny. They are geologically complex, with remnants of an ancestral Rocky Mt. system and evidence that uplift, which involved almost all mountain-building processes, occurred as a series of pulses over millions of years. The mountains have since been eroded to expose ancient crystalline cores flanked by thick upturned layers of sedimentary rocks. Glaciers and snowfields, which cover portions of the northern ranges and the high peaks of the south, were at one time more extensive; throughout the system the erosional features of alpine glaciation are apparent.\n\n:)\nPeace!
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It's a man-made tributary, called the Chain-of-Rocks canal.  It was made to bypass a particularly difficult part of the Mississippi River for the barges.