Lake Oron ( rus, озеро Орон, r=Ozero Oron) is a lake in eastern
Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizh ...
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Bodaybinsky District
Bodaybinsky District (russian: Бодайбинский райо́н) is an administrative district, one of the thirty-three in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.Charter of Irkutsk Oblast Municipally, it is incorporated as Bodaybinsky Municipal District.Law ...
),
Russia
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Geography
It is located in the
Kodar Mountains, to the south of the southern slopes of the
Delyun-Uran Range
The Delyun-Uran Range (russian: Делюн-Уранский хребет, translit=Delyun-Uranskiy khrebet) is a mountain range in Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia, Russia, part of the Stanovoy Highlands.
The nearest airport is Bodaybo AirportGoogle ...
.
Lake Oron is connected to the
Vitim River
The Vitim (russian: Витим; evn, Витым, ; sah, Виитим, ; Buryat and mn, Витим, ''Vitim'') is a major tributary of the Lena. Its source is east of Lake Baikal, at the confluence of rivers Vitimkan from the west and China fr ...
via a short waterway.
Hydrography
Lake Oron sits at an elevation of above sea level. It is long and wide, with a surface area of and a maximum depth of . The western and eastern slopes of the lake are practically vertical, and 85 percent of the lake is of a depth greater than , while the northern part of the lake that connects to the Vitim River is more shallow, with depths up to . The presence of deep
faults beneath Lake Oron strongly suggest that the lake has a
tectonic
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origin, with a
hydrological regime determined more by changes in
precipitation
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than by glacier
meltwater
Meltwater is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans. Meltwater is often found in the ablation zone of glaciers, where the rate of snow cover is reducing. Meltwater can be ...
.
See also
*
List of lakes of Russia
List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order:
*Arakhley (Арахле́й)
*Baikal (Байкал)
*Baunt (Баунт)
* Beloye, Ryazan Oblast (Белое)
* Beloye, Vologda Oblast (Белое)
* Bokon (Бокон)
* Bolshoye Morskoye (Боль ...
References
Oron
Oron may refer to:
"Light" or someone that is "being able" or "capable" of doing anything posible or impossible.
*Oron people a multi ethnic group of people living In the lower Cross River basin.
*Oron Nation, one of the major states in the old Ca ...
Landforms of Siberia
Stanovoy Highlands
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