Lake Magadi

Lake Magadi is the southermost lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, lying north east of Lake Natron. During the dry season, it is 80% covered by soda and is well known for its wading birds, including flamingos. Image File history File links LakeMagadi. ... Image File history File links LakeMagadi. ... In geology, a rift valley is a valley created by the formation of a rift. ... Lake Natron, here from 300 km overhead, changes colors with the seasons. ... SODA may mean: Service-Oriented Development of Applications See also soda. ... Families Charadridae Jacanidae Rostratulidae Ibidorhynchidae Recurvirostridae Haematopodidae Scolopacidae Dromadidae Burhinidae Glareolidae Thinocoridae Waders, called Shorebirds in North America (where wader is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups. ... Species Phoenicopterus roseus Phoenicopterus minor Phoenicopterus jamesi Phoenicopterus andinus Phoenicopterus chilensis Phoenicopterus ruber Flamingos (genus Phoenicopterus monotypic in family Phoenicopteridae) are gregarious wading birds, usually 3–5 feet in height, found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. ...

It is a saline, alkaline lake, approximately 100 square kilometers in size, that lies in a graben. The lake is an example of a "saline pan". The lake water, which is a dense sodium carbonate brine, precipitates vast quanitites of the mineral called trona (sodium sesquicarbonate). In places, the salt is up to 40 m thick. The lake is recharged mainly by saline hot springs (up to about 80°C), there being little surface runoff in this arid region. Most hot springs lie along the northwestern and southern shorelines of the lake. During the rainy season a thin (<1 m) layer of brine covers much of the saline pan, but this evaporates rapidly leaving a vast expanse of white salt that cracks to produce large polygons. The common (Arrhenius) definition of a base is a chemical compound that either donates hydroxide ions or absorbs hydrogen ions when dissolved in water. ... USGS image A graben is a depressed block of land bordered by parallel faults. ... Trona, hydrated sodium bicarbonate carbonate (Na3HCO3CO3·2H2O), is an evaporite mineral. ...

Magadi township lies on the lake's east shore, and is home to the Magadi Soda factory, the major local employer. This factory produces soda ash, which has a range of industrial uses. A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ... Sodium carbonate or soda ash, Na2CO3, is a sodium salt of carbonic acid. ...

The lake is featured in Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener, which is based on the book of the same name by John Le Carré, although in the film the shots are supposed to be at Lake Turkana. The Constant Gardener is a 2005 film based on the novel of the same title by John le Carré. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, who finds his wife murdered and seeks to uncover the reasons behind her death. ... Promotional poster for The Constant Gardener The Constant Gardener is the 18th novel by John le Carré and was published in 2001. ... John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England). ... View over Lake Turkana Lake Turkana, formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya (although the far northern end of the lake crosses into Ethiopia), which covers a surface area of 6405 km² (2473 mi²), making it the worlds largest permanent desert...

A causeway that crosses the lake provides access to the area west of the lake (Nguruman Escarpment). In modern usage, a causeway is a road elevated by a bank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland. ...