Shallow Acid Saline Water in Gneiss Lake, near Grass Patch in Western Australia (IMAGE)

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Shallow Acid Saline Water in Gneiss Lake, near Grass Patch in Western Australia

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Shallow acid saline water in Gneiss Lake, near Grass Patch in Western Australia, is an example of end-member continental brines. Orange iron oxide staining and white halite and gypsum precipitate on Precambrian quartzite gravel in lake. Photo taken in January 2008, when lake water was undergoing evapo-concentration and had pH 2.0 and salinity 28 percent total dissolved solids.

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Photo by Kathleen Benison, <i>GSA Today</i> June 2015.

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Photo by Kathleen Benison, <i>GSA Today</i> June 2015.

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