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Mono Lake

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  1. an alkaline and hypersaline lake in California, United States that is a critical nesting habitat for several bird species and is an unusually productive ecosystem

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  2. believed to have formed at least 760,000 years ago, dating back to the Long Valley eruption

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  3. In Mark Twain's Roughing It (1872), chapter 38 and chapter 39 provide a humorous but informative early description of Mono Lake in its natural condition in the 1860s

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  4. In order to provide resources for the growing Los Angeles area, water was diverted from the Owens River

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  5. The lake contains approximately 280 million tons of dissolved salts, with the salinity varying on the amount of water in the lake at any given time

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