Talk:Endorheic lake

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I think that sink is a very poor choice of title for this article, as endorheic basins tend to occur in dryer climates, and sink is more appropriate for the "sink holes" of karst togography, or the bogs (or former bogs) of places like The Wash, where King John lost his treasure. Nothing is going to sink in a normal playa. --Bejnar (talk) 06:12, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

. . .and in Britain at least, geographers and cavers will use the term rather to describe a point in a riverbed in a karst area where the waters disappear into the ground, typically not in a fashion describable as a sinkhole - that term would be reserved for a roughly conical depression taking water. See example at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2192370 cheers Geopersona (talk) 05:57, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Needs rewriting

From article:

“Since dry lakes in sinks with hardpan have little penetration, they require more severe aridity/heat to eliminate collected water at a comparable rate as for a similar sink with appreciable penetration. Depending on losses, precipitation, and inflow (e.g., a spring, a tributary, or flooding); the temporal result of a lake in a sink may be a persistent lake, an intermittent lake, a playa lake (temporarily covered with water), or an ephemeral lake...”

Clearly, that needs cleaning up to make it readable by non-scientists.

Flagged the article with the technical template.

cluth (talk) 08:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC)