The Mono Basin of California with Mono Lake at its centre, is a landscape of unique aesthetic appeal and scientific interest. A National Scenic Area.

• Contributor: GeoJuice / Alamy Stock Photo
• Image ID: 2GBKP14
• File size: 36.4 MB (1.7 MB Compressed download)
• Releases: Model - no | Property - no
• Dimensions: 4368 x 2912 px | 37 x 24.7 cm | 14.6 x 9.7 inches | 300dpi
• Date taken: 15 April 2010
• Location: Mono Lake lies in eastern California about 190 miles east of San Francisco in the lee of the Sierra

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• a low water bridge formed
• a unique brine shrimp lives in lake
• alkaline water
• artemia monica
• basin
• california
• ecosystem under threat
• effects of changing lake level
• endorheic lake
• extraordinary lake
• fluctuating lake level
• fossilised underwater springs
• fresh water is diverted to los angeles
• geography
• geology
• geomorphology
• high and dry towers near navy beach
• lake is too saline to support fish
• lake level was lowered by water diversion
• lake without an outlet
• lee vining
• level by balance of inputs and outflows
• local ospreys hunt elsewhere
• mineral formations
• mono craters
• mono lake
• mono lake committee
• mono-sierra fault
• negit island
• negit island gull colony decimated
• nesting gulls and plovers
• paoha island
• rsgs
• sage brush
• saline water
• shelf like flanges indicate previous lake levels
• sierra nevada uplifting
• sink lake
• snow melt
• terminal lake
• the lake shrunk
• three times saltier than seawater
• tufa
• tufa deposited by freshwater springs
• tufa towers
• unique landscape and ecosystem
• usa
• volcanoes have recently formed islands and craters in the mono
• warm springs on eastern shore
• water diversions began in 1941