NASA Earth Observatory
The Allure of Searles Lake Salts(August 15, 2024)
For decades, rockhounds gathered each year at Searles Lake in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California. Wielding crowbars and pickaxes, they hunted for showy deposits of minerals such as halite, trona, calcite, and dolomite. Planetary scientists from NASA and several other institutions are finding many of the same water-soluble minerals, though their tools and destinations are worlds apart.
https://www.geonames.org/5394122/searles-lake.html
The Allure of Searles Lake Salts(August 15, 2024)
For decades, rockhounds gathered each year at Searles Lake in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California. Wielding crowbars and pickaxes, they hunted for showy deposits of minerals such as halite, trona, calcite, and dolomite. Planetary scientists from NASA and several other institutions are finding many of the same water-soluble minerals, though their tools and destinations are worlds apart.
https://www.geonames.org/5394122/searles-lake.html