Relief map of Mono Lake and surrounding area, including nearby Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park ( area within yellow boundaries ); California-Nevada state border shown

Mono Lake ( ) is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760, 000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean.

The human history of Mono Lake is associated with its productive ecosystem.

The Mono Lake Committee formed in response, winning a legal battle that forced Los Angeles to partially restore the lake level.

USGS map of the Mono Lake area, showing geological features

Mono Lake formed because it lies in the Mono Basin, an endorheic basin that has no outlet to the ocean.

The tributaries of Mono Lake include Lee Vining Creek, Rush Creek and Mill Creek which flows through Lundy Canyon.

This activity was northwest of Mono Basin and included the formation of Aurora Crater, Beauty Peak, Cedar Hill ( later an island in the highest stands of Mono Lake ), and Mount Hicks.

Mono Lake is believed to have formed at least 760, 000 years ago, dating back to the Long Valley eruption.

Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah, which would put it among the oldest lakes in North America.

Currently, Mono Lake is in a geologically active area at the north end of the Mono – Inyo Craters volcanic chain and is close to Long Valley Caldera.

Volcanic activity continues in the Mono Lake vicinity: the most recent eruption occurred 350 years ago, resulting in the formation of Paoha Island.

Lakeside of Mono Lake, 1999

An important, and unintentional, consequence of ending the water diversions was the onset of a period of " meromixis " in Mono Lake.

In the time prior to this, Mono Lake was typically " monomictic "; which means that at least once each year the deeper waters and the shallower waters of the lake mixed thoroughly, thus bringing oxygen and other nutrients to the deep waters.

Mono Lake alkali flies

The lake is famous for the Mono Lake brine shrimp, Artemia monica, a tiny species of brine shrimp, no bigger than a thumbnail, that are endemic.

Mono Lake is a vital resting and eating stop for migratory shorebirds and has been recognized as a site of international importance by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.

Nearly 2, 000, 000 waterbirds, including 35 species of shorebirds, use Mono Lake to rest and eat for at least part of the year.

ECMA and ISO require that all patents essential to implementation be made available under " reasonable and non-discriminatory ( RAND ) terms ", but interpretation of this has led to much controversy, particularly in the case of Mono.

Mono Lake has the second largest nesting population of California gulls, Larus californicus, second only to the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Present day Inyo county has been the historic homeland for thousands of years, of the Mono tribe, Coso people, Timbisha and Kawaiisu Native Americans.

For many years it has been commonly believed that the county derived its name from the Mono tribe of Native Americans name for the mountains in its former homeland.

Federally, Mono Vista is located in California's 19th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 10 and is represented by Republican Jeff Denham.

He has also served as a martial arts advisor to various films and television productions, including the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, and in the first film from the highly popular Japanese series Shinobi no Mono.

The litigation forced Los Angeles to stop diverting water from around Mono Lake, which has started to rise back to a level that can support its ecosystem.

As of 2011, the water level in Mono Lake has risen of the required.

The LADWP has been a leading actor in the struggle over access to water from the Owens Valley, starting with its initial acquisition of water rights, as well as buying out farms and asserting control over Mono Lake and Owens Lake.

Currently, Mono Puff is on hiatus due to the relocation of some of the core members, though Flansburgh has expressed interest in pursuing further recordings.

Verhaeghen has been involved in several projects outside Klinik, including Noise Unit ( with Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly ), D. Sign ( with Philippe and Eliane Fichot of Die Form ), X10 ( with Niki Mono, Marc Ickx of A Split-Second and Vidna Obmana ), and Para ( with his own wife Sabine Voss ).

The group's tight song structure and use of heavy distortion has been hailed as extremely influential by numerous critics and musicians, including Melvins, Mono Men, Stephen Malkmus, Poison Idea, My Vitriol, Nation of Ulysses, Nirvana, Calamity Jane, and Cloud Nothings.

As of 2004, the water level in Mono Lake has risen 12 ft ( 3. 7m ) of the required 20 feet ( 6. 1 m ).

The project has released a total of five songs on various samplers and compilation albums from Gotee and Mono Vs.

* The DejaVu family of typefaces has a " DejaVu Sans Mono " variant is available on a good portion of Linux systems.

The mono version contains bird sounds different from the stereo recording, and was originally issued on a mono incarnation of The Beatles ( it has since been issued worldwide as part of The Beatles in Mono CD box set ).

Since then Fury has released new albums approximately every other year, but has never been able to repeat the commercial success of Mono.

The Mono Grande ( Spanish for " Large Monkey "), a large monkey-like creature, has been occasionally reported in South America.

However, the sedimentary history of Clear Lake is unbroken, while Mono Lake's sediments have been disturbed by past eruptions of the Long Valley Caldera and associated volcanoes.

Volcanic activity persisted past 5 million years BP east of the current park borders in the Mono Lake and Long Valley areas.

California 120 begins here, heading west past Mono Lake through Lee Vining, over Tioga Pass, and through Yosemite National Park to the San Joaquin Valley.

One Phla – Pherá language, Xwla ( pronounced ), is spoken west of the Mono river, along the coast between Anexo ( Togo ) and Grand Popo ( Benin ); this language has been called Popo in the past.

Leif has also collaborated live with rhythmic noise act MS Gentur as MS Mono in the past, resulting in some tracks on samplers.