America's oldest lake revealed - how old is it?
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America's oldest lake revealed - how old is it?

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In a country estimated to have around 124,000 lakes, America is home to the third oldest lake in the world - Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is at least 2.3 million years old, according to Winnie Kortemeier, a professor of geosciences who spoke about the ancient body of water to the Las Vegas Sun. She placed Lake Baikal, a lake in Siberia, as the world's oldest lake to exist - coming in at roughly 5 million to 10.3 million years old. The second oldest lake in the world, coming in just before Tahoe, is Lake Tanganyika in East Africa - estimated to be between 8 million and 10 million years old.

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