The Sahara once held a lake 48% larger than all five Great Lakes combined, but Mega-Chad vanished about 5,000 years ago
- Today, only Lake Chad remains as the surviving surface-water remnant of that much larger system, shared by Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, while the ancient lake basin stretches far beyond it.
- At its highstand, palaeolake Mega-Chad was about 48 per cent larger than th
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- Today, only Lake Chad remains as the surviving surface-water remnant of that much larger system, shared by Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, while the ancient lake basin stretches far beyond it.
- At its highstand, palaeolake Mega-Chad was about 48 per cent larger than th
Sources: Times of India