Other volcanoes usually spew silicates, but the Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only one on the planet that spills "natrocarbonatites" as cool, runny, dark washes. It's a favorite among petrologists because it's the only one of its kind, Hannes Mattsson, a researcher at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, told NBC News. The culprit is Ol Doinyo Lengai, a million-year old volcano just south of Lake Natron. Nick Brandt / Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery A calcified dove, from Nick Brandt's book Across The Ravaged Land, published by Abrams, New York. How did the lake get this hostile? The "salt" in it isn't the regular table variety harvested from seawater, but magmatic limestone that's been forged deep in the Earth, poured out in runny lava flows and blasted into the air to become ash clouds 10 miles high. Water levels fluctuate easily because it's so hot - when the levels drop, the corpses are left behind on the shores, coated in salt, exactly how Brandt found them. Small birds or bats that try and fail to cross the 12- by 30-mile lake fall in, as do insects like beetles and locusts. Flamingos are some of the lucky birds that can make the trip across the lake which is 30-miles wide at its longest point. | COUNTRIES | Geographic."If a body falls anywhere else it decomposes very quickly, but on the edge of the lake, it just gets encrusted in salt and stays forever," David Harper, an ecologist at the University of Leicester who has visited Lake Natron four times, told NBC News.
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Substitute for full name ( see definition) : No dataĭescriptive part of the full name ( see definition) : No dataĪ form of the full name that allows for alphabetical sorting of the file into gazetteer sequence ( see definition) : LAKENATRONįull Name with QWERTY characters ( see definition) : Lake Natron Language Code ( see definition) : No data Name Type ( see definition) : N (BGN Standard name) Secondary Country Code ( see definition) : KE ( Kenya) Population Figures ( see definition) : No data Second-order administrative division code ( see definition) : No data Populated Place Classification ( see definition) : No data Joint Operations Graphic reference ( see definition) : SA37-09įeature Classification ( see definition) : H (Hydrographic type feature)įeature Designation Code ( see definition) : LK (lake) Military Grid Reference System coordinates ( see definition) : 37MAT6631732515 Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds ( see definition) : 36° 00' 00" E Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds ( see definition) : 2° 25' 00" S Longitude in decimal degrees ( see definition) : 36 Latitude in decimal degrees ( see definition) : -2.416667 Unique Name Identifier ( see definition) : -3539161 Unique Feature Identifier ( see definition) : -2571438 Region Font Code ( see definition) : 3 (Africa/Middle East) Four luxurious camps enable exploration of Tanzania’s north and southern regions. Primary Country Code ( see definition) : TZ ( Tanzania)įirst-order administrative division code ( see definition) : 00 (Tanzania (general) ) KILIMANJARO AIRPORT TO DAR ES SALAAM AIRPORT. This page presents the geographical name data for Lake Natron in Tanzania, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.įull Name ( see definition) : Lake Natron
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA Lake Natron, Tanzania - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates
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