Sunday, December 15, 2019

Badwater Salt Flats

The Badwater Salt Flats is made up of 200 square miles of salt. While the ground is just about completely flat throughout, the intrigue comes from what the ground itself is made out of. The salt flats are composed of a shiny white salt, along with other minerals. These salts were originally salt ions in water, remnants from a since dried out lake that once occupied the area.
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In order to make a geologic map of the point of interest, we would have to find the chemical makeup of the salt which is covering the ground. This would heighten salt flat understanding foor Death Valley visitors.

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