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Mono Lake is a terminal lake in a watershed fed from melting runoff with no outlet. Dissolved salts in the runoff thus remain in the lake and raise the pH and the salt concentration.
Mono Toned
Bringing to you another outfit I concocted together…..lol This outfit is called Mono Toned. Hope you girls like it.☺
Wearing
Skin: [ Al Vulo! ] – [ Alice ] – [ Natural Sunkissed ]
Jewelry:: *LC* E – ( All jewelry I have on )
Lips: .:Glamorize:. Sheer Colored Glosses 02
Nails: .:[ RatzCatz ]:.
Hair: *ARGRACE* Fedora Hat “Glamorous wavy” ~ (Platinum)
Under Garments: *T.Whore*- Lace Bodysuit Gray
Pants: Dotz – light diggi – white – store’s no longer open but you can find digi pants anywhere. Alterego is a good store to buy digi pants…..any color you like ☺
Belt: ~Pepper~ Chunky Belt – BLACK
* Note* Some of these items may require a mesh viewer and some of these items can be found on marketplace ☺
doce monos rojos (red season)
…I'm at peace with my lust, I can kill 'cause in God I trust, yeah… (Do the Evolution / Yield / Pearl Jam)
…Estoy tranquilo con mi lujuria, puedo matar porque creo en Dios,...
One of the most fascinating places I've had the good fortune to visit. I could have spent hours there but as we were on a fairly tight honeymoon schedule it wouldn't have been right to have dragged all the gear down there and left my Wife standing!
South Tufa, Mono Lake, CA
"In the middle distance there rests upon the desert plain what appears to be a wide sheet of burnished metal, so even and brilliant is its surface. It is Lake Mono."
—Israel C. Russell, Quaternary History of the Mono Valley, 1889
AGE
At least one million years old. One of the oldest continuously existing lakes in North America.
SIZE
Area
1941: 86 square miles 13 X 9 miles
1982: 60 square miles 12 X 8 miles
Volume
1941: 4,200,000 acre feet
1982: 2,200,000 acre feet
WATER
Primary water sources: Runoff from Sierra in Mill, Lee Vining, Walker, Parker and Rush Creeks, and groundwater springs.
Contents: Sodium Chloride, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Sulfate (a chloro-carbonate-sulfate "triple water" lake)
Salinity (% of dissolved solids):
1940: 5.2deg.%
1982: 9.5deg.%
pH 10
BIOLOGY
Primary lake life: algae, brine shrimp and brine flies
Nesting birds: California Gulls (50,000) Migratory species: Wilson's Phalaropes (150,000), Northern Phalaropes (50,000), Eared Grebes (1,000,000) and 79 other waterbird species.
GEOLOGY
Mono Basin: Tectonic basin formed by faulting and downwarping of earth's crust. One to three million years old.
Volcanism: Chain of 30 domes of explosive rhyolite (75% silica) erupting continuously during last 40,000 years, as recently as 640 years ago. Negit Island, Paoha Island and Black Point also of volcanic origin.
Sierra: Rising one thousand feet every million years.
Sagebrush, Jeffrey pines, volcanoes, tufa towers, gulls, grebes, brine shrimp, alkali flies, freshwater streams, and alkaline waters comprise an unlikely world at the transition between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Great Basin desert.
Pronghorn antelope graze in the Bodie Hills while yellow-bellied marmots bask in the high Sierra summer sun. Great Basin spadefoot toads fill the evening air with an endless chorus of croaking while nighthawks hunt for insects in the fading twilight. Trillions of brine shrimp eat and mate beneath the briny waters of Mono Lake as Wilson's Phalaropes feast on alkali flies in preparation for their non-stop flight to South America.
Embracing 14 different ecological zones, over 1,000 plant species, and roughly 400 recorded vertebrate species within its watershed, Mono Lake and its surrounding basin encompass one of California's richest natural areas.
South Tufa, Mono Lake, CA
"In the middle distance there rests upon the desert plain what appears to be a wide sheet of burnished metal, so even and brilliant is its surface. It is Lake Mono."
—Israel C. Russell, Quaternary History of the Mono Valley, 1889
AGE
At least one million years old. One of the oldest continuously existing lakes in North America.
SIZE
Area
1941: 86 square miles 13 X 9 miles
1982: 60 square miles 12 X 8 miles
Volume
1941: 4,200,000 acre feet
1982: 2,200,000 acre feet
WATER
Primary water sources: Runoff from Sierra in Mill, Lee Vining, Walker, Parker and Rush Creeks, and groundwater springs.
Contents: Sodium Chloride, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Sulfate (a chloro-carbonate-sulfate "triple water" lake)
Salinity (% of dissolved solids):
1940: 5.2deg.%
1982: 9.5deg.%
pH 10
BIOLOGY
Primary lake life: algae, brine shrimp and brine flies
Nesting birds: California Gulls (50,000) Migratory species: Wilson's Phalaropes (150,000), Northern Phalaropes (50,000), Eared Grebes (1,000,000) and 79 other waterbird species.
GEOLOGY
Mono Basin: Tectonic basin formed by faulting and downwarping of earth's crust. One to three million years old.
Volcanism: Chain of 30 domes of explosive rhyolite (75% silica) erupting continuously during last 40,000 years, as recently as 640 years ago. Negit Island, Paoha Island and Black Point also of volcanic origin.
Sierra: Rising one thousand feet every million years.
Sagebrush, Jeffrey pines, volcanoes, tufa towers, gulls, grebes, brine shrimp, alkali flies, freshwater streams, and alkaline waters comprise an unlikely world at the transition between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Great Basin desert.
Pronghorn antelope graze in the Bodie Hills while yellow-bellied marmots bask in the high Sierra summer sun. Great Basin spadefoot toads fill the evening air with an endless chorus of croaking while nighthawks hunt for insects in the fading twilight. Trillions of brine shrimp eat and mate beneath the briny waters of Mono Lake as Wilson's Phalaropes feast on alkali flies in preparation for their non-stop flight to South America.
Embracing 14 different ecological zones, over 1,000 plant species, and roughly 400 recorded vertebrate species within its watershed, Mono Lake and its surrounding basin encompass one of California's richest natural areas.
Este es el mono con la cara mas parecida a una persona , encontrada en el museo de las artes y las ciencias de valencia
Tufa formations before sunrise. It was 21 degrees out.
Me and my dad stayed at Lee Vining, we got there about 9:00 the night before and the only restaurants in town were closed so we ate dinner at the gas station. I had spicy beef jerky, he had chips and a beer.
The Mono–Inyo Craters are a volcanic chain of craters, domes and lava flows in Mono County, Eastern California. The chain stretches 25 miles (40 km) from the northwest shore of Mono Lake to the south of Mammoth Mountain. The Mono Lake Volcanic Field forms the northernmost part of the chain and consists of two volcanic islands in the lake and one cinder cone volcano on its northwest shore. Most of the Mono Craters, which make up the bulk of the northern part of the Mono–Inyo chain, are phreatic (steam explosion) volcanoes that have since been either plugged or over-topped by rhyolite domes and lava flows. The Inyo Craters form much of the southern part of the chain and consist of phreatic explosion pits, and rhyolitic lava flows and domes. The southernmost part of the chain consists of fumaroles and explosion pits on Mammoth Mountain and a set of cinder cones south of the mountain; the latter are called the Red Cones.
Eruptions along the narrow fissure system under the chain began in the west moat of Long Valley Caldera 400,000 to 60,000 years ago. Mammoth Mountain was formed during this period. Multiple eruptions from 40,000 to 600 years ago created the Mono Craters and eruptions 5,000 to 500 years ago formed the Inyo Craters. Lava flows 5,000 years ago built the Red Cones, and explosion pits on Mammoth Mountain were excavated in the last 1,000 years. Uplift of Paoha Island in Mono Lake about 250 years ago is the most recent activity. These eruptions most likely originated from small magma bodies rather than from a single, large magma chamber like the one that produced the massive Long Valley Caldera eruption 760,000 years ago. During the past 3,000 years, eruptions have occurred every 250 to 700 years. In 1980, a series of earthquakes and uplift within and south of Long Valley Caldera indicated renewed activity in the area.
The region has been used by humans for centuries. Obsidian was collected by Mono Paiutes for making sharp tools and arrow points. Glassy rock continues to be removed in modern times for use as commercial scour and yard decoration. Mono Mills processed timber felled on or near the volcanoes for the nearby boomtown Bodie in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Water diversions into the Los Angeles Aqueduct system from their natural outlets in Mono Lake started in 1941 after a water tunnel was cut under the Mono Craters. Mono Lake Volcanic Field and a large part of the Mono Craters gained some protection under Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area in 1984. Resource use along all of the chain is managed by the United States Forest Service as part of Inyo National Forest. Various activities are possible along the chain, including hiking, bird watching, canoeing, skiing, and mountain biking.
Source: Wikipedia
doce monos rojos (red season)
…One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die… (—Charles Darwin)
…Una ley general, lo que lleva al progreso de todos los seres orgánicos, es decir, multiplicar, variar, dejar que el más fuerte en viva y los más débiles mueran...
Mono Cliffs Provincial Park. It's not a big park but it tells of important geology along the Bruce Trail in Ontario.
I had a very pleasant hike here in cool fall weather. No bugs, no people, just me and my thoughts (and my camera).
Mono or colour?
Don't just fav and run, or paste in flashy awards without comments.
I much prefer an honest crit typed by human hand. TVM.
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Mono Lake Sky. Mono Lake, California. August 5, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Afternoon thunderstorms develop over the eastern Sierra Nevada and Mono Lake
I think that many people are initially drawn to Mono Lake by the famous and often photographed tufa tower formations, and I have certainly sought out and photographed that subject quite a few times. But the more I go there the less I'm interested primarily in the tufas, and the more I find myself drawn to and thinking about other things. These include the immense space and deep quite surrounding the lake, broken by the cries of birds, especially when you visit at the quietest time around dawn. I also am drawn to the sky above this lake - which is often, frankly, rather barren, but when filled with the right kind of clouds can almost be the subject itself.
But only almost, so in this photograph I decided to include a thin strip of the reflecting water of the lake along with the darker formation of Black Point and the hills rising beyond in order to anchor that sky to something solid. This was one of those afternoons when thunder storms were trying to develop, but couldn't quite build sufficiently before sundown. But this still left some very spectacular clouds, especially where updrafts pushed their tops high into the light. I suppose that there are several reasons that I chose to make this a black and white photograph, but one very practical reason was that the lower reaches of the atmosphere were a bit brown from a nearby wildfire, and I could better adapt to that in monochrome.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Exploring the north side of Mono Lake for change, looking for (and not finding) the Black Point Fissures (hint, follow the footprints going up, not around!)