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Close-up of tufa columns. Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve is located near Yosemite National Park within Mono County, in eastern California. It was established in 1981 [2] by the California State Legislature to preserve the natural limestone "tufa tower" formations at Mono Lake. [3]
Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve; Mono Basin National Scenic Area; GFAJ-1, an organism from Mono Lake that has been at the center of a scientific controversy over hypothetical arsenic in DNA. List of drying lakes; Whoa Nellie Deli, located in Lee Vining, California, overlooking Mono Lake; Monolake, a Berlin-based electronic music project named ...
Located in the middle of the county is Mono Lake, a vital habitat for millions of migratory and nesting birds. The lake is located in a wild natural setting, with pinnacles of tufa arising out of the salty and alkaline lake. Also located in Mono County is Bodie, the official state gold rush ghost town, which is now a California State Historic Park.
Tufa columns at Mono Lake, California Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of water in unheated rivers or lakes. Geothermally heated hot springs sometimes produce similar (but less porous) carbonate deposits, which are known as travertine or thermogene travertine .
Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve; T. Trans-Sierra Highway; W. White Mountains Wilderness This page was last edited on 31 October 2020, at 21:47 (UTC). Text is ...
Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve: State natural reserve Mono: 55,300 22,400 1982 Montaña de Oro State Park: State park San Luis Obispo: 10,366 4,195 1934 Montara State Beach: State beach San Mateo: 780 320 1959 Monterey State Historic Park: State historic park Monterey: 9.6 3.9 1916 Monterey State Beach: State beach Monterey: 114 46 1960 ...
The Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area Visitor Center is located 1/2 mile north of the town of Lee Vining, California, just east of Tioga Pass (the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park), on U.S. Route 395. A variety of activities and exhibits introduce the natural and human history of the Mono Basin.
Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve; N. North Dock Tufa; T. Trona Pinnacles This page was last edited on 29 April 2021, at 01:34 (UTC). Text is available under ...