File:Mono lake tufa.JPG
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| current | 13:33, 9 January 2017 | | 1,728 × 1,152 (1.05 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tufa" title="Tufa">Tufa</a> towers in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mono_Lake" title="Mono Lake">Mono Lake</a> are calcium carbonate spires and knobs formed by interaction of freshwater springs and alkaline lake water. Tufa can reach heights of 30 ft. (9.1m). Mono Lake is located is <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Sierra" title="Eastern Sierra">Eastern Sierra Nevada</a> and covers about 65 square miles. Throughout the lake's existence of over 1 million years, the steady evaporation of freshwater originally coming from Eastern Sierra streams has left the salts and minerals behind so that the lake is now about 2 1/2 times as salty and 80 times as alkaline as the ocean. |
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