Birket Ram

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Birket Ram
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Birket Ram in the background Mount Hermon
Geographical location Syria
Drain drainless
Places on the shore Mas'ade
Location close to the shore Madschdal Schams (4 km N)
Data
Coordinates 33 ° 13 '57 "  N , 35 ° 45' 59"  E Coordinates: 33 ° 13 '57 "  N , 35 ° 45' 59"  E
Birket Ram (Syria)
Birket Ram
Altitude above sea level f1940
surface 45 hadep1
Maximum depth 12 m
Middle deep 6 to 9 m
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Birket Ram , also Berekhat Ram ( Hebrew בריכת רם; Arabic بحيرة مسعدة, Eng. 'Lake of Mas'ade'), is a crater lake in the northeastern part of the Golan Heights annexed by Israel , at the foot of Mount Hermon . The lake has an elliptical shape. The length is about 900 m, the width about 650 m. Birket Ram lies at an altitude of 940 m. Birket Ram contains 1.4 to 5.1 million m³ of fresh water, which varies according to the season . The lake was created about 70,000 BP as a result of an explosion from a volcanic crater. The lake has no drain and is fed by rainwater and an underground spring. The next place is the Mas'ade, about 200 m to the west, inhabited by Druze . The water from the lake is used, among other things, to irrigate the surrounding orchards.

literature

  • Aharon Horowitz: The Quaternary of Israel. Academic Press, 1979, ISBN 978-0-12-356170-1 , pp. 203 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Frank Neumann, Christian Schölzel, Thomas Litt, Andreas Hense, Mordechai Stein: Holocene vegetation and climate history of the northern Golan heights (Near East). In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 16, 2007, p. 329 f., Doi: 10.1007 / s00334-006-0046-x .
  • Jamie Woodward: The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. OUP, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-926803-0 , pp. 271–272 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Birket Ram  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Arieh Singer, Aline Ehrlich: Paleolimnology of a Late Pleistocene-Holocene Crater Lake from the Golan Heights, Eastern Mediterranean. (PDF) In: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. Volume 48, Number 4, 1978, pp. 1331-1340.
  2. ^ Robert O. Fellner: Cultural Change and the Epipalaeolithic of Palestine. Tempus Reparatum, 1995, ISBN 978-0-86054-775-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).