Mystery Planet Trona Pinnacles Tufa Spires Southern California Photograph by Neptune - Amyn Nasser Photographer

Mystery Planet Trona Pinnacles Tufa Spires Southern California

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Mystery Planet Trona Pinnacles Tufa Spires Southern California

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Neptune - Amyn Nasser Photographer

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The Trona Pinnacles are an unusual geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other bodies of water), some as high as 140 feet (43 m), rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side.

The Pinnacles are recognizable in more than a dozen hit movies. Over thirty film projects a year are shot among the tufa pinnacles, including backdrops for car commercials and sci-fi movies and television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Disney's Dinosaur, The Gate II, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trona_Pinnacles

The reason the pinnacles look so strange might lie in how they were formed. 10,000 to 100,000 years ago inland seas, including Searles Lake, covered a huge stretch of California. Below the lake’s surface, calcium in the ground water mixed with the alkaline lake water formed tufa pillars… the pinnacles we see today. Of course, they’re not underwater anymore; they’re in a desert. The water eventually dried up, revealing the formations.
https://chronicles.roadtrippers.com/trona-pinnacles/

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