Sentences with phrase «salt lake deposits»

Lithium and lithium carbonate used in accumulators are primarily produced from salt lake deposits.

Not exact matches

It does not occur as a pure element in nature but is contained within mineral deposits or salts including brine lakes and sea water.

«By Monday,» says Elbert Peck, editor of Sunstone, an independent Mormon magazine, the church authorities in Salt Lake City «know every cent that's been collected and have made sure the money is deposited in banks.»

The researchers tested 15 brands of sea salts, lake salts, and rock and well salts from underground deposits purchased at Chinese supermarkets.

The researchers credit a fluke of geology: The lakes apparently sit atop thick salt deposits laid down hundreds of millions of years ago, which act like road salt to keep the water liquid.

Like the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the Aral Sea has no naturally occurring outlets and over time collects salt from river deposSalt Lake in Utah, the Aral Sea has no naturally occurring outlets and over time collects salt from river depossalt from river deposits.

The acidity, she says, comes from tiny drops trapped in the salt deposits, which were left behind when the lakes evaporated.

Pink flamingos wade through blood - red lagoons on a seemingly endless plateau of snow - covered volcanoes, vast salt deposits and leftovers from ancient lakes that dried long before the first human ever stepped foot on the continent.

In 1970, artist Robert Smithson marshaled heavy equipment to deposit rocks and rubble along a 1,500 - foot - long path, starting at the shoreline of a remote section of Great Salt Lake, Utah, and spiraling out into the water.

Namibia's Etosha National Park, designated as a game reserve in 1907, is one of Africa's major wildlife sanctuaries.2 It centers around a huge, parched depression of silver - white minerals — the Great White Place or Place of Dry Water for which the park is named.3 This ancient, evaporated lake deposit of salt minerals fills with water only after heavy rains.4 The park harbors more than 100 types of mammals, including rare and endangered species such as the black rhinoceros, black - faced impala, tssesebe, and gemsbok.2 Etosha is also home to more than 300 species of birds and more than 100 species of reptiles.4

Looking down at the frozen tundra around the various chilly lakes below, I tend to see methane deposits, which isn't much better than seeing salt problems and ice dams breaking.

The team concluded that at that point in history, the Dead Sea nearly vanished: The lake evaporated, leaving salt deposits in the process as water levels fell about 2,300 feet (700 m) until only a beach remained.