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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 ...
Lake Karum (also known as Lake Assale or Asale) is a salt lake in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. One of two salt lakes in the northern end of the Danakil Depression (the other one being Lake Afrera), it lies 120 m (394 ft) below sea level. [1] The volcano Erta Ale rises southeast of this lake.
The largest individual pan is about 1,900 sq mi (4,921.0 km 2). In comparison, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is a single salt flat of 4,100 sq mi (10,619.0 km 2), rarely has much water, and is generally claimed to be the world's largest salt pan. A dry, salty, clay crust most of the year, the pans are seasonally covered with water and grass, and ...
Salt lake; Hypersaline lake; Salt pan; ... salt lake: Ethiopia [2] [3] 40.0: Lake Retba: salt lake: ... salt lake: Eastern Europe/ Western Asia
Makgadikgadi Pans ; Northern Eastern Rift (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia) Afar Depression (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia) Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes (Ethiopia) Lake Chew Bahir, Ethiopia, Kenya; Chalbi Desert, Kenya, Ethiopia; Lake Logipi-Suguta Valley (Kenya) Lake Turkana Basin (Ethiopia, Kenya) Southern Eastern Rift (Kenya, Tanzania) Lake Baringo ...
The sting of climate change is often viewed as an issue for future generations and as unimportant as a few degrees of temperature change. But for a region of farmers in the Indian state of Gujarat ...
Unlike other saline lakes in Ethiopia (e.g., Lakes Abijatta, Shala, and Chitu), the pH of Lake Afrera is low and in the acidic range. Although little studied, a few species of fish are hosted by Lake Afrera, including two endemics : Danakilia franchettii (a cichlid ) and Aphaniops stiassnyae ( syn. Lebias stiassnyae ; a pupfish ).
Gaet'ale Pond is a small hypersaline lake located near the Dallol crater in the Danakil Depression (Afar Region, Ethiopia). It is located over a hot spring of tectonic origin and has no apparent inlet or outlet streams. The water of Gaet'ale Pond has a salinity of 43%, making it the saltiest water body on Earth. [1]