Tufa

steveberlin

Tufa

Mono Lake is truly an experience to visit and photograph. You can photograph it in black and white for crazy moods or in color for astonishing efffects. The rock structures which stand together and lace the lake are known as tufa and the water in the lake is one of the most salt-filled water lakes in the world.

These tufa towers are calcium-carbonate spires formed by the interaction of freshwater springs and water leads and the alkaline in the lake. Mono lake is located north of Mammoth Lakes and June Lake and east of Lee Vining along Highway 120.

More info on the lake: (taken from google sources)
Throughout its long existence, salts and minerals have washed into the lake from Eastern Sierra streams. Freshwater evaporating from the lake each year has left the salts and minerals behind so that the lake is now about 2 1/2 times as salty and 80 times as alkaline as the ocean. Mono Lake is a majestic body of water covering about 65 square miles. It is an ancient lake, over 1 million years old—one of the oldest lakes in North America. It has no outlet.

(rescanned for proper color) Taken with a Canon Elan, 20mm lens, polarizing filter for reds, 4:30pm fall.

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Tufa by steveberlin
Tufa by steveberlin

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