Natron Lakes 07

Natron Lakes 07Aerial views on natron lakes in Kenya and Tanzania Lake Magadi in southern Kenya and Lake Natron in northern Tanzania are both big salt lakes, which means that rain water does not flow out and can only escape by evaporation. The left over high concentration of salt and other minerals gives the lakes a very saturated red to almost black color. But unlike other salt lakes Magadi and Natron got a very high level of alkaline due to high amounts of natron.

bauxite is particularly suitable for aluminum production - also against the background of the increasing aluminum demand worldwide

Both lakes are by far the most inhospitable and surreal areas I have ever seen from above

which represents 85 percent of all reefs in the United States

It allows one to witness the sheer scale of these frozen giants as they stretch over vast landscapes

but if you look at them from an aerial perspective

White Pocket is a unique place carved by wind and time

they find their way to the Earths surface

Aerial views on salt mining operations in different countries

sometimes called the rainforest of the sea

Pipeline - big waves from an aerial perspective

The coloration is due to the weathering of minerals containing sulfur substances of heavy metals encountered in the deposits along the river

Underwater sand ripples - captured from an aerial perspective