Lake natron calcified animals4/15/2023 While this brine is not particularly harmful in small doses, it is strong enough for the Maasai to regularly treat hard skin on their feet and to calcify animals that have perished in the water. In combination with the volcanic rock surroundings and very low calicum & magnesum levels, this allowed the lake to concentrate into a caustic alkaline brine. The high levels of evaporation have left behind Natron (which is Sodium Carbonate Decahydrate) and Trona (Sodium Sesquicarbonate Dihydrate) which causes the lake to have a PH level of greater than 12. This is partly why Lake Natron seems to steam and evaporate. The lake is a maximum of 57km long and 22km wide during the wet season and the water temperature is very high during the dry seasons. It sits within the Gregory Rift just south of the Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Natron is a salt and alkaline ‘soda lake’ in the Arusha region of northern Tanzania. While it is relatively unknown for tourism, scientists flock to Tanzania to learn about some of the unique anomalies of nature Lake Natron. Tanzania is certainly one of the most scientifically interesting countries in the world.
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