Soda Lake

Durning my most recent trip to Alberta I stubbled across a very cool phenomenon, an alkaline lake. The shore of the lake was eerily beautiful. I had never seen anything like this before. I only had my iPhone with me and managed to hike down and get a few images.

I know almost nothing about these types of lakes but here is what I found after a little research. Alkaline lake are lakes on the strongly alkaline side of neutrality, typically with a pH value between 9 and 12. They are characterized by high concentrations of carbonate salts, typically sodium carbonate (and related salt complexes), giving rise to their alkalinity. In addition, many soda lakes also contain high concentrations of sodium chloride and other dissolved salts, making them saline or hypersaline lakes as well. High pH and salinity often coincide, because of how soda lakes develop.[a] The resulting hypersaline and highly alkalic soda lakes are considered some of the most extreme aquatic environments on Earth. This comes from Wikipedia and if you want to learn more - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_lake

Now that I found and photographed this area I've very intrigued to find more lakes like this.

Thanks for reading.

Scott

For more adventures and images - http://www.scottstevensonphotography.ca/