7 Lows with elevations and ranks [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, Seven Lows, Lake Eyre, Caspian Sea, Deep Lake, Death Valley, Laguna del Carbón, Lake Assal, Dead Sea, Lake Baikal, Denman Glacier, Challenger Deep, Kola Superdeep
Refs & credits
Fly-in animations: Google Earth Pro-2x VE
Eyre water level: https://web.archive.org/web/20120523201740/http://www.ilec.or.jp/database/oce/oce-04.html
Eyre depths: NASA. 2020. Sizing up Remote Lakes. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148230/sizing-up-remote-lakes
Eyre photo: Lake Eyre 2004, ogwen, https://web.archive.org/web/20161027005658/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/76389325
Eyre: 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.2015.03.036
Eyre: 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)00124-2
Caspian water level: https://cabar.asia/en/caspian-sea-passes-critical-shallow-point-what-is-the-reason-behind-a-sharp-decline-in-water-level-in-largest-inland-body-of-water#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20its%20level%20reached,a%20natural%20way%20via%20precipitation.
Caspian photo: NASA Johnson Space Center. 2018. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS056-E-13641_-_View_of_Azerbaijan.jpg
Caspian: 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/S0001437011010073
Caspian animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UevnAq1MTVA 100-15 Ma
Deep water level: https://researchdata.edu.au/water-levels-deep-vestfold-hills/701721
Deep photo: Paul Hunt, antarctica.gov.au, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4041816909235498&set=a.906628919420995
Deep: https://earthathome.org/hoe/glaciers/
Deep: https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/chapter-3-2/3-1-introduction-polar-regions-people-and-the-planet/ipcc-srocc-cb_8_1/
Death Valley: USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED)
Death Valley photo: Joe Parks. 2011. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Badwater_Basin_-_Flickr_-_Joe_Parks.jpg
Death Valley: NPS https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/faults.htm
del Carbón elevation: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". https://geology.com/below-sea-level/. 9/7/2023.
del Carbón: 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.2005.06.005
del Carbón photo: Extracted Google Maps photo
Assal water level: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". https://geology.com/below-sea-level/
Assal photo: Watson P, ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p06cz0t8.jpg
Assal animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N9JrNjE5qI
Dead Sea water level: https://icl-group-sustainability.com/reports/dead-sea-water-level/
Dead Sea photo: Dead Sea Float_12IGD1530_Itamar Grinberg_IMOT, Dead Sea float. 2012. Itamar Grinberg for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. https://www.flickr.com/photos/israelphotogallery/14855986900/in/photostream/
Dead Sea: 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.2021.700550
Dead Sea: 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.2007.12.004
Baikal imagery: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baikal-S1999276045323.png
Denman Glacier aerial: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/denman20200325-nasa.jpg
Challenger Deep bathymetry: Google Map capture
Earth Interior fig: https://www.geologyin.com/2016/01/what-is-difference-between-oceanic.html
Countries land below sea level: https://geology.com/below-sea-level/
Danakil photo: A.Savin 2018 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ET_Afar_asv2018-01_img46_Dallol.jpg
Vpadina Kaundy photo: Thermokarst 2010 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Karagiye_Depression.JPG
Quattara photo: cheesy42 2007 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qattara_Depression_(March_2007).jpg
Turpan photo: Colegota 2005 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turpan-flaming-mountains-camellos-d01.jpg