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Salar del Hombre Muerto (transl. Salt Pan of the Dead Man) is a salt pan in Argentina, in the Antofagasta de la Sierra Department [2] on the border between the Salta and Catamarca Provinces. [3] It covers an area of 600 square kilometres (230 sq mi) and is in part covered by debris.
All rain falls exclusively in the summer, with annual totals between 200 and 400 millimetres or 8 and 16 inches. Several salt flats exist in this area. The highest altitudes found in the western parts of the province have a cool arid climate (Köppen BWk), with large diurnal ranges (temperature range between day and night). [7]
Salta Basin or Salta Rift Basin is a sedimentary basin located in the Argentine Northwest. [1] [2] The basin started to accumulate sediments in the Early Cretaceous and at present it has sedimentary deposits reaching thicknesses of 5,000 metres (16,000 ft). The basin contains seven sub-basins: Tres Cruces, Lomas de Olmedo, Metán, Alemanía ...
Some environmentalists say Eramet's project is the latest threat to previously untouched salt flats. "They are a perfect system of equilibrium, of life," said Mara Puntano, an activist in Salta ...
The nearest salt flats are the ones of Antofalla, Hombre Muerto (both in the north of Catamarca Province), Pocitos (in the east) and the Salinas Grandes of Jujuy and Salta provinces. The Salar de Arizaro is crossed in the middle by the Salta–Antofagasta railway and the Provincial Route 27 [1] (part of the former RN 59).
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Salt pan at Lake Karum in Ethiopia. Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun. They are found in deserts and are natural formations (unlike salt evaporation ponds, which are artificial). A salt pan forms by evaporation of a water pool, such as a lake or ...
Chile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1 to 2 centimeters (0.4 to 0.8 inches) per year due to lithium brine extraction, according to a study by the University of Chile. The study used ...