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Exploring one of the largest salt flats in the world


July 26, 2016

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A recent research report about one of the largest lithium brine and salt deposits in the world in Chile's Atacama Desert by geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to show that water and solutes flowing into the basin originate from a much larger than expected portion of the Andean Plateau. The massive evaporite deposit, 1,200 meters thick, appears to be draining an area far larger than a map-based or topographic watershed would suggest.Full Story

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

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