Study explains mystery of former crater lakes in the highest mountain range of the Sahara

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Aug 15, 2025, 9:34 am107 pts
An interdisciplinary research team led by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has shown how deep lakes formed more than 9,500 years ago in the craters of the Tibesti Mountains and existed there for more than 5,000 years.

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