7 Lows with elevations and ranks [x]:

Dead Sea, Asia, Israel/Jordan [1] -437 m (-1434 ft)
Lake Assal, Africa, Djibouti [2] -155 m (-509 ft)
Laguna del Carbón, South America, Argentina [3] -105 m (-344 ft)
Death Valley, North America, USA [4] -86 m (-282 ft)
Deep Lake, Antarctica [5] -51 m (-167 ft)
Caspian Sea, Europe, several countries [6] -28 m (-92 ft)
Lake Eyre, Australia [7] -15 m (-49 ft)

Keywords: Geography Viz, World Geography, Lowest elevation points, Seven Lows, Lake Eyre, Caspian Sea, Deep Lake, Death Valley, Laguna del Carbón, Lake Assal, Dead Sea, Lake Baikal, Denman Glacier, Challenger Deep, Kola Superdeep

Refs & credits

Fly-in animations: Google Earth Pro-2x VE

Eyre water level: https://web.archive.org/web/201205232...

Eyre depths: NASA. 2020. Sizing up Remote Lakes. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...

Eyre photo: Lake Eyre 2004, ogwen, https://web.archive.org/web/201610270...

Eyre: Schellart, W. P., & Spakman, W. 2015. Australian plate motion and topography linked to fossil New Guinea slab below Lake Eyre. Earth and Planetary Sci Letters, 421, 107-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.0...

Eyre: Magee, J. W., & Miller, G. H. 1998. Lake Eyre palaeohydrology from 60 ka to the present: beach ridges and glacial maximum aridity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 144, 307-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(98...

Caspian water level: https://cabar.asia/en/caspian-sea-pas....

Caspian photo: NASA Johnson Space Center. 2018. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Caspian: Kaz’Min, V. G., & Verzhbitskii, E. V. 2011. Age and origin of the South Caspian Basin. Oceanology, 51, 131-140. https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143701101...

Caspian animation:    • Scotese Plate Tectonics Paleogeograph...   100-15 Ma

Deep water level: https://researchdata.edu.au/water-lev...

Deep photo: Paul Hunt, antarctica.gov.au, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Deep: https://earthathome.org/hoe/glaciers/

Deep: https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/cha...

Death Valley: USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED)

Death Valley photo: Joe Parks. 2011. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Death Valley: NPS https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature...

del Carbón elevation: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". https://geology.com/below-sea-level/. 9/7/2023.

del Carbón: Echavarría, L. E., Schalamuk, I. B., & Etcheverry, R. O. (2005). Geologic and tectonic setting of Deseado Massif epithermal deposits, Argentina, based on El Dorado-Monserrat. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 19, 415-432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2005...

del Carbón photo: Extracted Google Maps photo

Assal water level: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". https://geology.com/below-sea-level/

Assal photo: Watson P, ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p06cz0t8.jpg

Assal animation:    • how does continental rifting occur,Ba...  

Dead Sea water level: https://icl-group-sustainability.com/...

Dead Sea photo: Dead Sea Float_12IGD1530_Itamar Grinberg_IMOT, Dead Sea float. 2012. Itamar Grinberg for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. https://www.flickr.com/photos/israelp...

Dead Sea: Aldaajani, T. Z., Almalki, K. A., & Betts, P. G. 2021. Plume versus slab-pull: example from the Arabian Plate. Frontiers in Earth Sci, 9, 700550. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.70...

Dead Sea: Smit, J., Brun, J. P., Fort, X., Cloetingh, S. A. P. L., & Ben-Avraham, Z. 2008. Salt tectonics in pull-apart basins with application to the Dead Sea Basin. Tectonophysics, 449(1-4), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2007....

Baikal imagery: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Denman Glacier aerial: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...

Challenger Deep bathymetry: Google Map capture

Earth Interior fig: https://www.geologyin.com/2016/01/wha...

Countries land below sea level: https://geology.com/below-sea-level/

Danakil photo: A.Savin 2018 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Vpadina Kaundy photo: Thermokarst 2010 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Quattara photo: cheesy42 2007 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Turpan photo: Colegota 2005 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...