746-90978 - Ojos del Salar, groundwater ponds and surface of the Salar predominantly natriumchloride. Landscape on the salt flats Salar Salinas Grandes in the Altiplano. South America, Argentina
1348-4580 - Desert Erg Iguidi, Algeria, True Colour Satellite Image. True colour satellite image of Erg Iguidi, a sand desert between Algeria and Mauritania. The 250m wide dunes lay in the South on a sand plain, and in the North on a blakek sandstone area. The light blue areas are calcareous and salt crusts left out from the evaporation of the oueds' water. Image taken on 29 March 1987 using LANDSAT data.
857-90888 - Tourists explore the natural salt flats on the shores of Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico. In 2000, thanks to national and international pressure, the Mexican government cancelled a joint venture with Mitsubishi subsidiary ESSA (Exportadora de Sal, S.A) to establish the largest industrial salt evaporation facility in the world. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site and part of the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, the lagoon is the last undeveloped gray whale birthing area on the planet, Mexico
869-5416 - salt-works Salinas de Punta Larga on coast by sea outdoors Pueblo Fuencaliente Isla La Palma Pronvincia Santa Cruz Canary Islands Spain Europe
869-5417 - salt-works Salinas de Punta Larga on coast by sea outdoors Pueblo Fuencaliente Isla La Palma Pronvincia Santa Cruz Canary Islands Spain Europe
817-471726 - Hexagonal shaped salt flats, polygonal lines of raised salt created from evaporation in dry season, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, South America.
832-107358 - Salt production by evaporation on a mountain slope at Pichingote, the salt terraces were already in use during the time of the Incas, southern Peru, South America
832-107353 - Salt production by evaporation on a mountain slope at Pichingote, the salt terraces were already in use during the time of the Incas, southern Peru, South America
120-4595 - Eastern shore of the Dead Sea, with salt concentration of over 20% sodium chloride (also rich in magnesium, calcium and potassium chlorides, Jordan
83-11932 - Looking from Dead Horse Point near Canyonlands National Park over the Colorado River canyon to the evaporation ponds at Potash. Mined salts are concentrated here for the extraction of potash for fertilizer, Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah, USA
763-775 - Shallow ponds where the Incas collected salt left by evaporation Salinas is located above the Sacred Valley of the Incas near Cuzco, Highlands, Peru
763-774 - Shallow ponds where the Incas collected salt left by evaporation Salinas is located above the Sacred Valley of the Incas near Cuzco, Highlands, Peru