Rift lake

Examples

• Lake Baikal, in Siberia
• Lake Balaton, in Hungary
• The Dead Sea, on the border of Israel, Palestine and Jordan, a pull-apart basin, formed along the Dead Sea Transform.
• Ebi Lake in China at the Dzungarian Gate on the border with Kazakhstan
• Lake Elsinore, in the Elsinore Trough in Southern California
• Lake Hazar, in Turkey
• Lake Idaho, a Pliocene rift lake in Idaho
• Lake Khuvsgul, northern Mongolia
• Limagne, an infilled Paleogene rift lake in France
• Lake Lockatong, a rift lake of Triassic age, formed in the Newark Basin.
• Lake Malawi, part of East African Rift
• The Orcadian Basin, in northern Scotland, had rift lakes that formed during the Middle Devonian.
• Rift Valley lakes, eastern Africa
• Lake Tanganyika, part of Albertine Rift
• Lake Vostok, in Antarctica, may have formed in a rift setting
• Þingvallavatn, in Iceland