Lake Natron
Hyperalkaline soda lake in northern Tanzania (pH above 12, up to 60°C), coloured red by salt-loving microorganisms and notorious for calcifying the animals that die in it.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 1,000,000 years ago speculative
Pleistocene alkaline, sodium-dominated trachyte lavas underlie the basin and supply the carbonate that lets the lake concentrate into caustic brine; the epoch spans roughly 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago source
Where
2.4170° S, 36.0000° E
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Natron
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/one-of-the-strangest-lakes-on-earth-lake-natron
Each event carries Aion's own evidence grade (mainstream, disputed or speculative). This page repeats what the globe shows for this place.