Birds that sought prey in lakes spread out their toes when they hit the water, and eventually developed webbed feet and became ducks.
As the trail became a raised berm, dull, algae-choked lakes spread out to the right and a canal flanked it to the left.
The spilled oil was collected in 300 oil lakes, spread over an area of about 49 km2.
At the glacier's edge, the trail comes to the first of the Gokyo Lakes, a chain of six lakes spread over more than 10km that form the highest freshwater lake system in the world.
In his office, when Kendall looked up from his Tocqueville, he could see the opalescent lake spreading out in all directions.
Designed to tap the huge power of the river before it spent its strength on the plains and wetland forests, the Iron Gates dams resulted in a storage lake spreading 100 miles back upstream, through the mountains towards Belgrade, turning Europe's second longest river into a half river, half lake.
Already the concrete base of a man-made lake spreads around the construction, for architect Jean Nouvel's Louvre will be on a miniature island, its works of art transported to its gallery through an underground tunnel, light sprinkled into its interior as if through the fronds of palm trees.
This is the West, expanding in all directions, dominated by the luminosity of the sun and its apparitions, and the lake spreads out as far as the eye can see.
Lakes are insular environments and uncolonized lakes are spread throughout the invaded range; therefore, many aquatic invasive populations are serially introduced into locations with low conspecific densities.
The new results suggest that warmer temperatures will cause the lakes to spread up to 68 miles further inland by 2060, doubling the size of the area they cover.
