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The ideal conditions for cyanobacteria development, such as Spirulina spp, Increases due to lot and quick evaporation. The level of salinity of the water of Lake Natron Temperature, strong wind, scarcity of vegetation and thick mud surrounding the Saline and alkaline water, lack of rain, extreme Of the Lake Natron evaporates, the natron and trona are left behind which make Surrounded bedrocks are composed of alkaline. The lava makes its way into Lake Natron and rising its Mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate which once used in Through runoff from rainwater and nearly hot springs and releases into Lake Volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai spews alkali-rich natrocarbonatite lava which flows The water of Lake Natron is extremely alkaline pH level is 10.5. With water that has heated underground, the temperature of water can be reach Lake’s alkalinity can reach directly to the ammonia. The Lake Natron has high evaporation rates. Most of the rainfall occurs between December and May, followed by a long dryĪt the lake, the daily temperature is above 40☌ so Region, where rainfall is erratic, below 800mm per year with annual variation. Lake Natron is in Tanzania’s low elevation semi-arid This salt crust changes over time and gives the lake a slightly The lake also gets its bright red colour from cyanobacteria which have red green algae with red pigments have coloured the lake’s salt crust red or pink. Water makes the lake inhospitable for many plants and animals. Many salt loving microorganisms thrive in its alkaline water. Lake Natron sends a warning with its bright redĬolour. At the southern edge of the lake has Gelai volcano (9652). Lake Natron is 56 km long, 24 km wide and 9.8 feetĭeep, streaching between the Kenya-Tanzania border and Ol doinyo Lengai Many minerals rich hot springs also fed this lake. River feeding the lake is Southern Ewaso Ng’iro River, which originates inĬentral Kenya. Lake Natron is a closed alkaline saline lake. Within Kenya and northern Tanzania at 36° E Longitude and 2☃0’S Latitude. Lake Natron is lying in the Gregory Rift which is

Lake Natron is in Arusha region in north Tanzania,Īfrica, on the Kenyan border. Sodium bicarbonate, sodium decahydrate (a kind of soda ash) along with a small Lake Natron got its name because of its water which is a mixture of Natron Lake, the world's most caustic or alkaline lake.