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Published online 22 June 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070618-16
Corrected online: 4 July 2007

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Disappearing lake confuses geologists

A quake or melting ice could have drained a Chilean lake away.

A glacial lake in the Andes has disappeared mysteriously, prompting local geologists to head to Bernardo O'Higgins National Park in Patagonia, Chile, to find out what happened.

The lake, some 20,000 square metres in area, was last seen in March.

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