LAKE MAGADI
31/03/2019
Lake Magadi
is the southernmost lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, lying in a catchment of faulted volcanic rocks.During the dry season, it is 80% covered by soda and is well known for its wading birds, including flamingos.
The lake water, which is a dense sodium carbonate brine, precipitates vast quantities of the mineral trona. In places, the salt is up to 40 m thick. The lake is recharged mainly by saline hot springs (temperatures up to 86 °C) that discharge into alkaline "lagoons" around the lake margins, there being little surface runoff in this arid region. Most hot springs lie along the northwestern and southern shorelines of the lake. During the rainy season, a thin (less than 1 m) layer of brine covers much of the saline pan, but this evaporates rapidly leaving a vast expanse of white salt that cracks to produce large polygons.
is the southernmost lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, lying in a catchment of faulted volcanic rocks.During the dry season, it is 80% covered by soda and is well known for its wading birds, including flamingos.
The lake water, which is a dense sodium carbonate brine, precipitates vast quantities of the mineral trona. In places, the salt is up to 40 m thick. The lake is recharged mainly by saline hot springs (temperatures up to 86 °C) that discharge into alkaline "lagoons" around the lake margins, there being little surface runoff in this arid region. Most hot springs lie along the northwestern and southern shorelines of the lake. During the rainy season, a thin (less than 1 m) layer of brine covers much of the saline pan, but this evaporates rapidly leaving a vast expanse of white salt that cracks to produce large polygons.
TRIP GALLERY
LAKE MAGADI SPORTS CENTER
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