![]() In 2011, wildlife photographer Nick Brandts pictures of these dead animals made the world take notice. ![]() “No one knows for sure exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. Lake Natron in Tanzania, East Africa is different from your regular lakes. “I could not help but photograph them,” Brandt told ‘New Scientist’. What’s interesting is that a few brave flamingos live near the lake, but none of them dare go near it.īrandt’s pictures are pretty fascinating. (Normal alkalinity is, like, you know, pH2.) As a result, if you want to take a dip in Lake Natron, you would immediately die and become calcified. This makes the alkalinity of the lake between a pH9 and a pH10.5. ![]() Natron is made up of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. (Alkalinity is the capacity for water to neutralize acid.) Lake Natron gets its name from the compound, natron. How does this lake calcify animals? Well, because of volcanic ash that collected from the Great Rift Valley, the lake has a high alkalinity. Photographer Nick Brandt has created a new photo series that includes the bodies of animals that were calcified by Lake Natron in northern Tanzania. danger for the lake was highlighted by renowned photographer Nick Brandt. Animals on Lake Natron have literally been turning to stone. Lake Natron, the East African Halophytic situated along the Great Rift Valley. A small portion of the lake its northern tip lies over the border in southern Kenya. The elongated lake is 56 km long from north to south, and 24 km wide. Unless Medusa is roaming the lakes of northern Tanzania, there has to be some reason for this phenomena. Where is Lake Natron Lake Natron is in northern Tanzania, just over a 100 km northwest of the city of Arusha.
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