Mono Lakes

Mono Lake is an alkaline lake located in Mono County, California in the United States of America. It has an unusually productive ecosystem, and is home to numerous bird species. The lake contains an extremophilic bacterium of the Halomonadaceae family, GFAJ-1 which, initially, seemed able to replace in its DNA the phosphorus, a very rare element in the lake, with arsenic, poisonous for most living species.

Only later this hypothesis was refuted, discovering in the bacterium a rare ability to distinguish arsenic from phosphorus, thus making it totally immune from the toxic effects of the latter. The bacterium, however, remains unable to reproduce in total lack of phosphorus.

To the north of Lake Mono, on the Bodie hills, there are Andesitic lavas dated between 8 and 28 million years old. These rocks date back to the last phase of subduction volcanism in the area. Between 4.5 and 2.6 million years ago, large quantities of basalt erupted, forming Cowtrack Mountain, located southeast of the lake, covering an area of ​​780 km2, with a maximum height of 180 m.

Map: Mono Lakes

vCard Info:

Address: 93541, Stati Uniti
California (USA)
Latitude: 38.0128316
Longitude: -118.9761519
Site: http://www.monolake.org/...

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Type: Area
Function: Park
Creation date: 17-01-2020 08:01
Last update: 23/01/2021