![]() Thanks to the horny protective layer on the legs and beak, the flamingos often manage to survive the Natron lake. No, they are not the men and much less the pigeons of the squares, but the pink flamingos. The alkalinity of the lake can reach a pH of greater than 12.1. # The invincible species that survives the hellish lake Credits: NatronĮveryone thinks that this is the infernal lake or the lake of death, but a species of animal manages to survive the chemical composition of Lake Natron. Lake Natron is a soda lake at the base of the active volcano of Ol Donyo Lengai. This is how when animals, especially bats and birds, touch the water of Lake Tanzania, the minerals inside begin to turn them into stone, trapping them in the position they took before they touched the cursed lake. This substance makes the waters of the lake have the same properties of ammonia with a pH between 9 and 10.5 and a temperature of about 60 ✬, creating an environment so corrosive that almost no animal can survive. Lake Natron is called this way because of the presence of the natural compound of sodium carbonate hydrate (in fact Natron) within its waters. # Natron: the sodium carbonate hydrate that kills Credits: Natron However, you should not imagine the classic blue lake, but rather a basin of reddish water with deep white streaks typical color of those lakes rich in sodium and often subject to evaporation cycles. The lake that turns animals into stone is called Lake Natron and is located in northern Tanzania, in the African Rift Valley at about 600m altitude. THE LAKE that turns ANIMALS into STONE # The Lake of Death Credits: natron This time, however, we are not talking about magic, but only about nature. It might remember one of the punishments of some evil witch, when then the good protagonist always comes to save the poor creatures. As isolated as the lake is (it wasn't even discovered by Europeans until 1954), there are no protections in place for the lake or its threatened flamingo population.A mix between a horror film scene and reality, yet there really is a lake that turns animals into stone. The serenity of Lake Natron - and its flamingo population - are threatened by a proposed hydroelectric power plant on the Ewaso Ngiro River, the main river feeding the lake. ![]() As shallow lakes in a hot climate, their water temperatures can reach as high as 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius). Both are terminal lakes that do not drain out to any river or sea they are fed by hot springs and small rivers. Lake Natron is one of two alkaline lakes in that area of East Africa the other is Lake Bahi. And deposits of sodium carbonate also acts as a fantastic type of preservative for those animals unlucky enough to die in the waters of Lake Natron. The water's alkalinity comes from the sodium carbonate and other minerals that flow into the lake from the surrounding hills. The high alkaline level of the lake has the pH of the lake more than 12, with the lavas in the lake having significant. One alkaline lake in Tanzania, Lake Natron with a pH up to 10.5 due to sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate that leaches from the surrounding soil, supports an ecosystem of alkaline-adapted birds, fish, and algae but has killed many other animals. ![]() ![]() The alkaline water in Lake Natron has a pH as high as 10.5 and is so caustic it can burn the skin and eyes of animals that aren't adapted to it. It is in the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern branch of the East African Rift. Lake Natron is a salt or soda lake in Arusha Region in Tanzania. ![]()
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