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Here’s roughly what the process of collecting salt from a dried-up lake looks like: a man in rubber boots walks onto the site (because beneath the layer of salt there’s usually a layer of stinky muck that you can sink into), then he uses a special rake to gather the salt into small piles. After that, he collects it into a sack.
Roman era salt pans, currently farmed by the same family for a couple of centuries. Xwejni, Gozo, Malta
Microorganisms color the soil red-orange as an alkaline pond evaporates during the heat of summer. San Louis National Wildlife Refuge.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen
The members of the We’re Here! group are doing the 100 Quotes Project today.
I'm in Santa Cruz, California at the beach today!
LASCIAMO IL TEXAS E IL CLAMORE DELLA BATTAGLIA DI ALAMO E CI SPOSTIAMO A NORD IN OKLAHOMA DOVE SI TROVA QUEST'AREA COMPOSTA DA UN LAGO SALATO E QUESTA LANDA SALATA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Plains_State_Park.
FOTO SCATTATA NEL 2004 CON NIKON COOLPIX
The loading docks of the salt mine Goderich as seen from across Rotary Cove.
The Goderich salt mine is the world's largest underground salt mine. The salt in mined 550 metres underneath Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada.
Great Salt Lake was much bigger until the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. When the salty water evaporated, salt remained on the ground. It has become this boundless salt pan. Bonneville Salt Flats is a small portion of the salt pan that used to be the lake. Its size is 12 miles by 5 miles at longest. The total area is 46 square miles (119km2). The maximum thickness of salt crust is 5 feet (150cm). Due to the weather, climate (Bs/semi-arid), and the surface being plain white, we were dazzled and weren't able to see ahead.
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Like a lot of places in Southern Germany Bad Friedrichshall grew rich on salt mining. Indeed, places ending with "hall" regularly indicate the presence of former salt mines.
While for most places, salt mining is a thing of the past, Bad Friedrichshall still has an operational salt mine. During the summer - on weekends and public holidays, it's also open to visitors. Some of the cavernous places in the mines have been converted to other uses. One of them is an underground chapel - complete with a church pulpit and a shrine plus some illuminated structures of salt. It's quite magnificent. Unfortunately, I could not quite capture the vastness of the place with the camera.
Larnaca Salt Lakes region - a network of salt lakes that temporarily sustain over 10,000 migratory flamingos for 4 months a year. In the summer, however, the area is reduced to an expansive evaporated salt plain. Ramsar site, given protected status and one of the most ecologically significant areas in Cyprus.
This north facing vista from Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, starts with the Newark Slough in the foreground, then the approach to the Dunbarton Bridge, followed by the salt marshes fronting Coyote Hills, and ends with the San Mateo Bridge and a fog bank in the distance.
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The Marsalforn salt pans, known locally as Il-Qolla l-Bajda, are located on the north coast of Gozo Island, Malta, stretching along the rocky coast west of Marsalforn Bay. Carved directly into the limestone, they form an intricate mosaic of geometric tanks that reflects a centuries-old tradition of artisanal sea salt production.
The Marsalforn salt pans in Gozo are part of a tradition of salt exploitation that dates back to antiquity, long before the Middle Ages or modern periods. Their origin is closely linked to the Phoenicians and, later, the Romans, peoples who quickly understood the enormous economic and strategic value of salt in the Mediterranean.
The Phoenicians, great navigators and traders from the coast of present-day Lebanon, arrived in the Maltese islands around the first millennium BC. For them, Malta and Gozo were natural stops on trade routes between East and West. Salt, essential for food preservation and maritime trade, became a priority resource. Taking advantage of the rocky coastline, intense sun, and constant winds, the Phoenicians began digging shallow tanks in the limestone, creating the first organized structures for sea salt production. The simple and functional geometry of these primitive salt pans would lay the foundation for the system that is still recognized in Marsalforn.
With the Roman conquest of the Maltese islands in the 2nd century BC, salt production gained an even more structured dimension. The Romans perfected the Phoenician techniques, expanding the tanks, creating more efficient channels for the circulation of seawater, and integrating the salt pans into an organized economy on an imperial scale.
Over the following centuries, despite the successive dominations that passed through Gozo, the basic structure of these salt pans remained surprisingly faithful to the solutions created by the Phoenicians and Romans. Thus, walking through the salt pans of Marsalforn today is to traverse a space where more than two thousand years of history overlap.
Gozo island - Malta
Temperatures were cold and upi can see exhust from plant across the Salt Lake! Looking toward Antelops Island,
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Treasure Hunt theme #55 - Salt and Pepper
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A micro (macro) photograph of one single grain of table salt.
Grains of salt are translucent...who knew? You can see the red background through the salt crystal.
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Here is a picture of a salt marsh among the hundred which are present on the Island of Ré. I took this picture because I was really fascinated by some colorful ponds.
I was told by a specialist that when the amount of salt in a pond is light, it turns green because the green alga into the pond is then predominant. When the amount of salt increases, then the dunaliella salina algae produces a shade from pink to red.
White color - sodium (Na)
red color - potassium (K)
dark blue - magnesium (Mg)
This little crystal from Belarus, from town named Soligorsk (like town of salt), from the mine at the depth 700 meters. Now there is a big potash company in Soligorsk, and millions years ago on the place of the town was a sea, so sometimes can find remains of marine animals or plants inside crystal. When I was taking this photo, I saw a small piece of plant inside my crystal too.
Un salt d'aigua d'uns 30 metres d'alçada que es troba a la riera de Joanetes. Fàcil arribar-hi, uns 20 minuts a peu.
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I decided to share this image for the upcoming #macromondays theme called #granules
Size of the wooden spoon is aprox. 2,5 cm = 1"
Himalayan salt, often called pink salt, is a type of rock salt mined from the Salt Range mountains in Pakistan, particularly near the Khewra Salt Mine. It's famous for its distinctive pink color, which comes from trace minerals like magnesium, potassium, and calcium.
Here are a few quick facts:
Uses: Commonly used in cooking, as bath salts, or in salt lamps for decorative and claimed therapeutic purposes.
Health claims: Some believe it has detoxifying or respiratory benefits, but scientific evidence is limited.
Flavor: Slightly milder than regular table salt, with a unique mineral
Granules are small particles or grains that typically range in size from very fine to coarse. They can occur naturally or be manufactured and are often used to describe materials that are solid, dry, and granular in texture.
Granules In Different Contexts:
Biology / Cell Biology:
Granules are small structures within cells, often involved in storage or secretion of substances.
Examples: Secretory granules in glands, granules in platelets (important for blood clotting), or cytoplasmic granules.
Pharmaceuticals:
Granules refer to a dosage form made of aggregated powdered ingredients.
They improve flowability, compressibility, and can be used for sustained release medications.
Food Industry:
Granules can refer to coarse grains of salt, sugar, coffee (like instant coffee), or seasoning mixes.
They often dissolve easily in water and are used for quick preparation.
Geology:
Refers to a specific particle size category of sediment, typically between sand and pebbles (~2–4 mm).
Found in riverbeds, beaches, and sedimentary rocks.
Astronomy:
Granules on the Sun are convection cells visible on its surface (photosphere).
They appear as bright areas with darker edges, caused by the movement of hot plasma.
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