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Salar de Atacama, located 55 km (34 mi) south of San Pedro de Atacama, is the largest salt flat in Chile. [1] It is surrounded by mountains and lacks drainage outlets. To the east, it is enclosed by the main chain of the Andes , while to the west lies a secondary mountain range called Cordillera de Domeyko .
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 ...
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 ...
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The salt flat contains systems of oncoids that grow in the interface between proper salt flat and an adjacent wetlands. [1] The geology surrounding the southern part of Salar de Antofalla is made up of continental (e.i. non-marine) sedimentary rock that deposited from Late Eocene to Early Pleistocene times.
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 ).
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 ...