Sentences with phrase «alkali bed»

Once again the politico's fail to learn from past mistakes (the entire history of the sea is one mismanagement after another), ignoring no only the impact on bird life but the impending ecological disaster of exposing a 600 sq mile alkali bed to the high winds of the area (think of salt blowing all over those green golf courses in Palm Springs, only 30 miles away).

So there you have it - a mistake that caused a huge inland sea (called a sea because the alkali bed it rests on gives it a high saline content).