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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.
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
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.
Death Valley Memories
Salt Creek Reflection
Panamint Mountains
Cottonball Basin
Death Valley National Park
California
January 2014
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.
Taken from the overbridge by Salt Lake Cottages A4 60009 heads to Carlisle on 2/8/2003.The wildflowers add some nice colour
Copyright David Price
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For Sale at the Port of Lancaster Smoke House, Glasson Dock, Lancashire.
Glasson Dock, also known as Glasson, is a village in Lancashire, England, south of Lancaster at the mouth of the River Lune.
Glasson was originally a small farming and fishing community.
In 1779, the Lancaster Port Commission decided to build a dock at Glasson because of the difficulties of navigating up the River Lune to the port at Lancaster. Construction was finished by March 1787, when the dock opened and could hold up to 25 merchant ships.
Salted Cod has been a mainstay of European trade and cuisine for many centuries.
Near the Lagunas Escondidas de Baltinache, the salt of a dried-up lake forms amazing honeycomb patterns.
The Lagunas Escondidas de Baltinache are a group of 7 pools averaging 5 meters in diameter and up to 6 meters deep with a very high salinity (about 220 g/l).
They are located in the remains of a dried-up salt lake southwest of San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) and can only be approached by car via a 45-kilometer dirt road.
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Providence, Rhode Island....Mural titled "Salt Water" by Georgie Nakima, who goes by the name Garden of Journey.
In september last year. This is at Schiermonnikoog ,one of the islands north the Dutch coast. The water is salt and the vegatation is sea wormwood as far the eye see in this picture.
Modified by CombineZP focus stacking software. Close up of ordinary table salt with a Sigma 105mm lens and extension tubes. Uncropped.
A well-known and photographed gritstone tor on Derwent Edge. Though not clear in this photo, there were clouds of midges making photography unpleasant on this still morning.
Death Valley, California
Looking across the salt flats of Cottonball Basin towards the foot of the Panamint mountains. The foreground of yellow sediment is partially covered with salt deposits, although the “salt” here is not likely to be pure sodium chloride. Borax was once gathered in Cottonball Basin. A nearby outcropping of this sediment has the grand and rather aspirational name of Mustard Canyon.
Doug Harrop Photography • June 1994
A clean Cotton Belt GP60 leads an RVASQ on Union Pacific's Salt Lake Subdivision along the I-15 freeway in Farmington, Utah.
A worker carries baskets of salt on her bamboo pole at sunrise. The Hon Khoi Salt Fields in Nha Trang is one of the largest salt fields in central Vietnam. Sea water is pumped into these fields and allowed to evaporate leaving salt crystals behind. The men then rake and collect the salt into pyramidal heaps, while the women carry the salt to be processed on their bamboo poles.