Lake Asal Djibouti - most saline waterbody on Earth


	Lake Asal Djibouti - most saline waterbody on Earth
hitchhiker08
3-31-2008 1:38 AM
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geography, geology, salt pans, djibouti, africa
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another popular location in unpopular Africa?!
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aaf21408-6c26-4427-89bc-fe55186e7e5a/CBA5AB35-BDE2-46BB-BD64-00323BA5A76E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nature-blog.com/2008/03/lake-assal-djibouti.html" href="http://www.nature-blog.com/2008/03/lake-assal-djibouti.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nature-blog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature-blog.com/2008/03/lake-assal-djibouti.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title">
<A href="http://www.nature-blog.com/2008/03/lake-assal-djibouti.html">Lake Assal - Djibouti</A>
</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature-blog.com/2008/03/lake-assal-djibouti.html"><DIV><A href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/2175238454_ee525375c1_o.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/2175238454_ee525375c1_o.jpg" /></A>Lake Asal (Lake Assal) is a crater lake in central Djibouti, located at the southern border of Tadjoura Region, touching Dikhil Region. It lies 153 m (502 ft) below sea level in the Afar Depression and is the lowest point in Africa. It measures 10 by 7 km and has an area of 54 km². The mean depth is 7.4 meters, which makes for a water volume of 400 million m³. The catchment area measures 900 km². It is surrounded by a salt pan (extending west and mainly northwest). The salt is mined and transported by caravan to Ethiopia.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature-blog.com/2008/03/lake-assal-djibouti.html"><DIV>Lake Asal is the most saline body of water on earth, with 34.8 percent more salt than the Dead Sea (at a depth of 20 meters, as much as 39.8 percent has been measured). 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