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October 02, 2020

Yuncheng Salt Lake in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, China

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The Salt Lake in Yuncheng, China, is so salty, it's sometimes called China's Dead Sea. But unlike the Dead Sea in the Middle East, Yuncheng's Salt Lake supports lots of microscopic life: algae and other microorganisms that have a high tolerance for salt. In autumn, the lake temperature is high enough to create algae blooms, bringing a variety of colours to the lake water.

Stranger still, during the cold, dry winter the lake level drops, causing some of the sodium content in the water to form mirabilite rime - spiky, ice crystal-like mineral formations that make the lake shore and shallow surfaces look like an ice-covered landscape from science fiction.

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