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Bookmark or Share- Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve - CA State ParksMono 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 ...
- About Mono LakeLocated at the eastern edge of California, between the arid Great Basin and the snowy Sierra Nevada, Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake that covers over 70 square miles and supports a unique and productive ecosystem. The lake has trillions of brine shrimp and alkali flies, millions of birds, and freshwater tributary streams. ...
- Long Valley Caldera Field Guide - Mono Lake Active - USGSMono Lake's tufa towers seen from the south shore (Public domain.) Mono Lake is the saline remnant of a much larger Pleistocene fresh-water lake known as Lake Russell. The water is currently about twice the salinity of ocean water. In the middle of Mono Lake are two islands, Negit and Paoha, where the most recent volcanic eruption in the area ...
- Mono Lake - WikipediaMono Lake (/ ˈ m oʊ n oʊ / MOH-noh) is a saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin.The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake which make its water alkaline.. The desert lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine shrimp, which thrive in its waters, and provides ...
- Natural History - Mono LakeA unique, productive ecosystem. Located at the edge of the arid Great Basin and the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains of California, Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake that covers more than 70 square miles and supports a unique and highly productive ecosystem.. Mono Lake has no fish, but is teeming with trillions of brine shrimp and alkali flies, which sustain millions of migratory birds that ...
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