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Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
Published in Dexter Perkins, Kevin R. Henke, Adam C. Simon, Lance D. Yarbrough, Earth Materials, 2019
Dexter Perkins, Kevin R. Henke, Adam C. Simon, Lance D. Yarbrough
Lakes whose waters contain large amounts of dissolved salts, like the Great Salt Lake, are called saline lakes. Some saline lakes are perennial (forming every year after spring runoff) and some are playas (that flood sporadically). Parts of Utah’s Great Salt Lake are playas that are sources of many valuable minerals. In California, 600 miles southwest of the Great Salt Lake, Searles Lake is a dry playa that has flooded often in the last 150,000 years. The lake is 19 kilometers (12 miles) long and 13 kilometers (8 miles) at its widest point. Every time the lake floods, more mineral deposits are left behind. Searles Lake yields 1.7 million tons of borax, epsomite, trona, and other industrial minerals each year.
A Statistical Technique for Modelling Dissolved Oxygen in Salt Lakes
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2021
Hussein A. M. Al-Zubaidi, Ahmed S. Naje, Zaid Abed Al-Ridah, Ali Chabuck, Isam Mohamad Ali
It is not surprising that salt lakes in underdeveloped countries have even less attention than in developed countries, especially those countries that have problems with water resources and less data to work on. One of these salt lakes is Sawa Lake, located in Iraq about 26.74 km west of Samawah City (N 31°18´ and E 45°00´). It has almost no attention and no monitoring system, and it is not protected. Concerns that future changes of climate or management may affect the lake water quality have promoted the need for modeling the lake for future predictions. Shope and Angeroth (2015) highlighted the need for more monitoring of dissolved oxygen in salt lakes statistically. Salt lakes represent about 45% of the total inland lake volume (Shiklomanov, 1990), and they are used as a source for water supply especially in regions of dry/hot weather and low groundwater level. Sawa lake is a good example for this. The lake significance is that its located is within a desert area where people have used wells for water supply. This concern makes salt lakes valuable for humans.