Diatomaceous earth is mined from underwater beds or from ancient dried
lake bottoms thousands of years old.
Not exact matches
If the
lake were
thousands of years old, it would probably have a flat
bottom, the result of fine sediments gradually filling it up.
These appeared to be the remains of someone who died and sank to the
bottom of the
lake many
thousands of years ago.
Once the
bottom of a large glacial
lake, these rolling sand hills are home to vegetation such as lodgepole pines as well as plant species that arrived via Berengia
thousands of years ago.