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Basin countries
  
Lake type
  
seasonal, alkali

Surface elevation
  
1,320 m

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Alkali Lake is a geographic sink in Lake County, Oregon, United States. It is in the Alkali Subbasin of the Summer Lake Basin watershed in southeastern Oregon, located 26 miles east of Christmas Valley, Oregon, northeast of Lake Abert, to the immediate west of Abert Rim and Highway 395.

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Map of Alkali Lake, Oregon 97630, USA

Alkali Lake is thought to have reached a prehistoric maximum depth of 270.7 feet (82.5 meters) and covered about 1448.4 square miles (2,331 square kilometers). Since then, its water level has varied, with a drying trend. Notable features include dissolved alkaline salts averaging 10% of total brine weight in its seasonal waters and a nearby chemical disaster, Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump.

Plants

Plants known to occur in the dunes immediately north of the lake include:

  • Buckwheat Family
  • Broom Buckwheat
  • Goosefoot Family
  • Spiny Hopsage
  • Mustard Family
  • Stanleya or Guillenia sp.
  • Evening-primrose family
  • Desert Evening-primrose
  • Parsley Family
  • Rhysopterus plurijugus
  • Phlox Family
  • Great Basin Gilia
  • Borage Family
  • Matted Cryptantha
  • Sunflower Family
  • Desert Pincushion
  • Gray Rabbitbrush
  • Showy Townsend Daisy
  • Climate

    According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Alkali Lake has a steppe climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.

    Works cited

  • McArthur, Lewis A. Oregon Geographic Names, Fourth ed. 1974. Edwards Brothers. Ann Arbor, MI
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Field Office
  • References

    Alkali Lake (Oregon) Wikipedia


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