- The strange shapes of the limestone towers rise above the water is the special attraction of tourists in Mono Lake, California, USA.
Mono is a shallow saline lake located in the desert east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, California, USA. Area lakes with no outlet to the sea where salt accumulation is high. It was by this salinity that Mono Lake has no survival of the species, but there are many species of saltwater shrimp live here.
There are over 2 million birds annually migrate to chose Mono Lake stopover in migratory journey to South America or the tropical oceans. We usually eat crawfish, hatching eggs and chicks born right here.
The special attractions at Mono Lake is strange shapes of the limestone towers rise above the water. This is the result of the reaction between water layers rich in calcium and carbon in the form of lakes and limestone. Over time, the accumulation of this limestone on a lot and formed limestone towers today. The tower, with strange shapes looming in the lake when water levels recede days.
However, the drop of water in Mono Lake is not a natural phenomenon. In 1941, when the city of Los Angeles, Mono Lake water used for daily use, the water level in the lake on a declining to reveal the limestone towers.
Today, Mono Lake is home to the popular migratory birds and California gulls (a seabird). Due to the high salinity of the lake so the shrimp live in salt water gradually also scarce, can not even survive.
In 2012, the ecosystem of Mono Lake was almost completely destroyed by excessive salinity increase caused saltwater shrimp species not surviving to 1.3 million birds have no food. Although California government has proposed measures to protect the ecosystem of the lake, but the drought is still happening often making it to the now bare limestone tower with strange shapes.
Some images in Mono Lake:
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