Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Classification of Natural Ponds and Lakes
in the Glaciated Prairie Region

Plate 28


jpg -- Alkali lake (VI-4)
Plate 28. Alkali lake (VI-4). Intermittent-alkali zone is represented by shallow open-water phase and exposed alkali mud flats. Surface salts on mud flats in the foreground have been largely removed by wind erosion. August 3, 1962, Stutsman County, N. Dak.


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