Salton Sea

Salt Beds
Name:Salt Beds
Date:8/27/2006
Location:Obsidian Butte

This odd looking surface resembles something that you would find on the surface of Earth’s only orbiting satellite the moon, but it is actually a crust of evaporated salt water, and alga rich mud. The salt (halite) transported to this area from the Colorado River is an accumulation of many years of deposition and evaporation. (Salton Sea Authority, 2000)


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