Salinas Grandes

This salt desert, which occupies an area of ​​8900 square meters. kilometers in Precordillera Argentina. The soil of this desert almost lifeless. This completely white valley in the first who saw it seems the snow desert. But it is not so: sometimes the temperature here rises to 45S.

Looking at the white desert, involuntarily come to mind thoughts of the seabed. But geologists are pretty skeptical about this kind of assumptions: too dry climate prevails in the territory of the desert of Salinas Grandes, too little rain falls here. Experts believe that there could be a lake, and even more so - the inland sea. Moisture in the desert appears rarely - in the form of rain or the descent of water from the mountains. Due to the unbearable heat and strong winds, standing a little small lakes quickly isparyayutsya.

The area of ​​desert Salinas Grandes is only suitable for the extraction of mineral salts. Elements such as chloride and sulphate of soda, borax and soda ash are formed directly on the white crust. They just scraped off the salt poverhnosti.



Source: mirfactov.com/