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Silver Lake (Mojave)

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Primary outflows
  
Terminal (evaporation)

Max. length
  
12 km (7.5 mi)

Length
  
12 km

Shore length
  
30 km

Cities
  
Baker

Primary inflows
  
Basin countries
  
Surface elevation
  
280 m

Width
  
5 km

Inflow source
  
Silver Lake (Mojave) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Mojave DesertSan Bernardino County, California

Silver Lake is a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, along Interstate 15, 100 km (62 mi) northeast of Barstow.

Contents

Map of Silver Lake, California, USA

HistoryEdit

Silver Lake, along with the adjacent Soda Lake, is what remains of Lake Mojave, a large, perennial lake that existed through the Holocene.

GeographyEdit

The Mojave River terminates at Soda Lake, but the river has flowed into Silver Lake in historic times (as recently as the very wet winter of 2004–2005). A channel that has been modified by humans exists between the lakes. The lake occasionally has water, but is usually dry.

Silver Lake does not have salt crusts, like Soda Lake does, because the groundwater is deeper. Salt crusts form from the repeated capillary rise of salty groundwater, followed by evaporation.

References

Silver Lake (Mojave) Wikipedia


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