Exploring Mono Lake
by Ben Prepelka
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Exploring Mono Lake
Artist
Ben Prepelka
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Here in the transition zone between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Great Basin Desert is the setting for Mono Lake. Fed by mountain streams, this rather large lake has no outlet (terminal lake). Mountain runoff, laced with minerals, has collected here in Mono Lake for centuries. Initial analysis dates back to the 1940s, and even then the lake was saltier than ocean water. The growing city of Los Angeles, needing more water, looked to Mono Lake's feeder streams for another water source. Forty years later the lake had lost 27 square miles of surface area, exposing underwater formations of tufa. Some of these calcite deposits, made of calcium carbonate, reach thirty feet in height, adding a unique look to the shoreline.
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July 12th, 2016
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