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Lake that turns Creatures to Stone

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  • 02-10-2013 12:20pm
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    kerry4sam
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    Just curious if their is anywhere else in the World with these type of conditions:

    There's a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret—it turns any animal it touches to stone. The lake has a constant pH of 9 to 10.5—an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity.

    Taken from here.

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    Thanks,
    kerry4sam


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    seagull
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    Just a small degree of exaggeration in that article. Touching that water might cause some unhappiness and fairly severe chemical burns, but it's not going to kill you. Dying in that lake results in petrification.


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    kerry4sam
    Registered Users Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    seagull wrote: »
    Just a small degree of exaggeration in that article. Touching that water might cause some unhappiness and fairly severe chemical burns, but it's not going to kill you. Dying in that lake results in petrification.

    yeah gathered that alright. Just interesting all the same, to me. Curious also as to whether their are many other localtion world-wide with these type of conditions?

    Thanks,


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    Adam Khor
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    I'm pretty sure Chile and maybe Bolivia have this sort of lakes.


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    kerry4sam
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure Chile and maybe Bolivia have this sort of lakes.

    Thanks,
    Would you have any linkies or stories I could read on this?


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    Adam Khor
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    Well, Wikipedia has a list of soda lakes (which is what lake Natron is).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_lake#List_of_soda_lakes

    I doubt its complete, since I do remember reading about many more in South America (complete with flamingo colonies and all), and this list only mentions one.
    I'll try to find out more about them.

    Meanwhile I leave you with the story of lake Nyos (you may know it already). Very scary stuff.

    http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lake-nyos-the-deadliest-lake-in-the-world


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    kerry4sam
    Registered Users Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Well, Wikipedia has a list of soda lakes (which is what lake Natron is).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_lake#List_of_soda_lakes

    I doubt its complete, since I do remember reading about many more in South America (complete with flamingo colonies and all), and this list only mentions one.
    I'll try to find out more about them.

    Meanwhile I leave you with the story of lake Nyos (you may know it already). Very scary stuff.

    http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lake-nyos-the-deadliest-lake-in-the-world

    Thank you for this. That's very kind of you. Had not heard of Lake Nyos but it's riveting reading though :)

    Thanks again,


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