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Great Fish God at Mono Lake, Howling at the North Star - 1991
TUFA: a porous rock composed of calcium carbonate and formed by precipitation from water, e.g., around mineral springs.
Mono Lake is a majestic body of water covering about 65 square miles. It is an ancient lake, over 1 million years old -- one of the oldest lakes in North America. It has no outlet.
Throughout its long existence, salts and minerals have washed into the lake from Eastern Sierra streams. Freshwater evaporating from the lake each year 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.
Full Moon - 18 Minute Exposure.
This famous Tufa Formation is again mostly under water due to the success of the "Save Mono Lake" Committeee, which legally forced Los Angeles to finally stop diverting most of the water that flows into Mono Lake. Image taken in 1982.
Great Fish God at Mono Lake, Howling at the North Star - 1991
TUFA: a porous rock composed of calcium carbonate and formed by precipitation from water, e.g., around mineral springs.
Mono Lake is a majestic body of water covering about 65 square miles. It is an ancient lake, over 1 million years old -- one of the oldest lakes in North America. It has no outlet.
Throughout its long existence, salts and minerals have washed into the lake from Eastern Sierra streams. Freshwater evaporating from the lake each year 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.
Full Moon - 18 Minute Exposure.
This famous Tufa Formation is again mostly under water due to the success of the "Save Mono Lake" Committeee, which legally forced Los Angeles to finally stop diverting most of the water that flows into Mono Lake. Image taken in 1982.