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Explain how each of the following lakes were formed : (a) Victoria (b) Tanganyika (c) Chala (d) Sare (e) Kivu

      

Explain how each of the following lakes were formed :
(a) Victoria
(b) Tanganyika
(c) Chala
(d) Sare
(e) Kivu

  

Answers


Kavungya
a) Formation of lake Victoria:
Lake Victoria was formed as a result of warping and tilting of the earth
crust. During the drainage evolution process, the western part of the depression was uplifted to form a Ruwenzori and middle part down warped Rivers like Yala, Nzoia, Mara, and Kuja were cutoff and started pouring their water into this depression to form lake Victoria.
b) Formation of lake Tanganyika: lake Tanganyika was formed as a result of
faulting. During the formation of the rift valley some parts of the valley were deeply faulted to form long narrow hollows. When water accumulated in this hollow, Lake Tanganyika, which is faulted or Rift Valley Lake was formed.
c) formation of lake Chala: Lake Chala was formed when water
accumulated in the crater of a volcano.
d) Formation of lake sare is a lagoon that formed at the shore of Ugowe Bay
in Siaya District. Action of long shore drift deposited materials across the by which cutoff part of Lake Victioria to isolate the water mass to form a lagoon new lake Sare.
e) Formation of Lake Kivu; Lake Kivu is a lava dammed lake. It was formed
during the eruption of virunga volcanoes which blocked the west rift. One of the tributaries of river Zaire was dammed to form Lake Kivu.
Kavungya answered the question on June 7, 2019 at 13:38


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