Sentence examples for saline lake from inspiring English sources

In western Azerbaijan is Lake Urmia, a shallow, highly saline lake that covers anywhere from 1,750 to 2,300 square miles (4,500 to 6,000 square km), depending on the season.

Lake Mar Chiquita, Spanish Laguna Mar Chiquita, saline lake at the southern edge of the Gran Chaco in northeastern Córdoba provincia (province), north-central Argentina.

The Salton is the country's second largest saline lake, home to millions of migratory birds.

Bombay Beach is the name of a ruined ghost town on the Salton Sea in southern California, a saline lake.

Lake Elton, highly saline lake, Volgograd oblast (province), Russia, near the Russian border with Kazakhstan.

Several playas (saline lake beds), locally known as dhands, are scattered throughout the region.

Concentrations of SiO2 and Ca are variable, likely due to the precipitation of gypsum and silica, which is a common process in hyper-saline lake waters (Varekamp et al. 2000).

Water level in the Dead Sea, whose shores lie about 423 meters below sea level, has been dropping for decades not due to climate change, but because humans increasingly draw large amounts of water from the rivers that feed into the super-saline lake.

While sub-clade C corresponds to Picocystis salinarum, a species originating from a hyper-saline lake having probably a very restricted ecological range, sequences from sub-clades A and B have been previously recovered from the English Channel [27], the Equatorial Pacific Ocean [2], and the Mediterranean Sea [19].

Low hills are characteristic, and there are extensive depressions occupied by saline Lake Tengiz and other lakes.

By a system of dikes and sluice gates the Aztec even managed to convert a portion of saline Lake Texcoco, the largest and lowest lake in the basin, to a freshwater bay for further chinampa colonization.