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Lake Natron is a salt or alkaline lake located in north Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region in Tanzania at the border with Kenya. It is in the Gregory Rift , which is the eastern branch of the East African Rift . [ 1 ]
Over 1.5 Million of lesser flamingos flock to Lake Natron each year to breed. The lake is one place makes up over half of the world's lesser flamingos. See images of the deadly lake:
A recent Smithsonian.com article discusses Tanzania’s Lake Natron which contains water so corrosive that many animals cannot survive. This lake in Tanzania is deadly for many animals, but ...
Lake Shala, in the East African Rift Valley. A soda lake or alkaline lake is a lake on the strongly alkaline side of neutrality, typically with a pH value between 9 and 12. They are characterized by high concentrations of carbonate salts, typically sodium carbonate (and related salt complexes), giving rise to their alkalinity.
The film documents the lives of the lesser flamingos on the isolated shores of Lake Natron in Tanzania, revealing the breeding and parenting habits of the species.After mating on an immense salt island, the flamingos breed their chicks, who learn to survive and grow up in an extreme and dangerous environment.
The northern part of Lake Natron is covered by a 1.5 m thick trona bed, [10] and occurs in 'salt' pans in the Etosha National Park in Namibia. [11] The Beypazari region in the Ankara Province of Turkey has some 33 trona beds in two fault -bound lensoid bodies in and above oil shales of the Lower Hirka Formation (16 in the lower and 17 in the ...
Common forms include air pollution by the ammonia gas emitted by rotting agricultural slurry and fertilizer factories while natural sources include the burning coal mines of Jharia, the caustic Lake Natron and the guano of seabird colonies.
Blue-green algae can produce toxins that make people and animals sick. It can even cause death in some cases. Four of Lake Geneva's six beaches remain closed due to dangerous blue-green algae