tufa towers造句

• Tufa towers are eerie spires and pagodas made of calcium carbonate.
• These are the best examples of what are known as tufa towers.
• Another good sign would be a tufa tower.
• Farmer has been diving into Mono Lake, east of Yosemite National Park, to study the process by which microbes get trapped in the tufa towers there.
• We skirted solo tufa towers and the mouth of the Rush Creek, a major inlet ( Mono Lake is a terminal lake _ it has no outlet, trapping salts and minerals and making it so saline ), before lunching along a western beach.
• As a result, alkaline sands and formerly submerged tufa towers became exposed, the water salinity doubled, and Negit Island became a peninsula, exposing the nests of california gulls to predators ( such as coyotes ), and forcing the sea gull colony to abandon this site.
• Back down the mountain, and heading south again on U . S . 395, you soon come to Mono Lake, a creepy body of water with strange moonlike formations called tufa towers, made of calcium carbonate, that look like something out of an old Flash Gordon serial.
• Like the other four kayakers who had plunked their money down to tour the ancient lake _ at 730, 000 years, perhaps the world's oldest living body of water _ I had seen the dusty islands and the tufa towers of calcium carbonate rising from the shores of this mammoth oasis in the high desert, situated between Mammoth Lakes and Bridgeport at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada range.