{"id":27022,"date":"2024-10-03T01:39:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27022"},"modified":"2025-04-08T06:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T01:02:52","slug":"lake-prespa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lake-prespa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Prespa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Lake Prespa:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>oldest tectonic lakes<\/strong> in <strong>Europe<\/strong>, and also the highest tectonic lake on the Balkan Peninsula.<\/li>\n<li>It lies at the junction of <strong>three major geological masses<\/strong>: a granite massif on the East, a karstic massif belonging to Galicica on the West, and the Suva Gora on the South.<\/li>\n<li>The region is famous for having rocks from the oldest Paleozoic form to sediments belonging to the young Neogene era.<\/li>\n<li>It is made up of the <strong>Great Prespa Lake (<\/strong>Albania, Greece and the Republic of Macedonia)<strong> and Small Prespa Lake<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of Little Prespa Lake, also known as Small Lake Prespa, sits in Greek territory, with just its southern tip crossing into Albania.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Rising temperatures and increasingly mild winters with little snowfall and a scarcity of precipitation have battered the lake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is a Tectonic lake?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a large body of water formed by the movement of tectonic plates. They appear deep and narrow and have unique aquatic life. Examples include: Lake Baikal (Russia) &#8211; formed by rift valley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/little-prespa-lake-on-albanian-greek-border-slowly-dying\/article68712101.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Little Prespa Lake on Albanian-Greek border slowly dying<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Prespa is one of the oldest tectonic lakes in Europe, and also the highest tectonic lake on the Balkan Peninsula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}