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Posted By: Hal Brown

Date Posted: Oct 29, 2008

Description: The pyramid shaped tufa rock formations are built up over eons by hot spring geysers that precipitate calcite rock and other minerals in the cold lake water. As the lake level has dropped this one has been exposed.

Date Taken: Oct 29, 2008

Place Taken: Pyramid Lake, Nevada

Owner: John Spratt

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Category: 302, Sierra Seareys

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Dan Nickens - Oct 30,2008 Viewers | Reply


	What has happened to cause the water level to drop in this lake, John?

John Spratt - Oct 30,2008 Viewers | Reply


At one point the ancient lake Lahontan was 900 feet deep over present day Pyramid Lake, but climate change and increased evaporation rates and more recently, in 1903, the Derby dam has diverted water for irrigation. More details at the weblinks.	Attachments: Lake Lahontan Pyramid Lake	Attachments: Tufa

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