💧🌏 Greg CocksMar 29, 2023
Why Death Valley Is Full Of Polygons [salt flats, deserts, and dry lakes]
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https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/31 <-- shared article
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011025 <-- shared paper
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Why Death Valley Is Full of Polygons

The geometric patterns on dry, salty lake beds are generated by convection of high- and low-salinity water underground, according to simulations and observations.

Physics