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.

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 has experienced meromictic periods in the past ; this most recent episode of meromixis, brought on by the end of the water diversions, commenced in 1994 and had ended by 2004.

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.

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The area is drained by the Mono River and its tributaries, including the Ogou River.

50 km of the lower Mono River is navigable.

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From 4. 5 to 2. 6 million years ago, large volumes of basalt were erupted around what is now Cowtrack Mountain ( east and south of Mono Basin ); eventually covering and reaching a maximum thickness of.

Tis-sa-ack is the name of a Mono Lake Paiute Indian girl in the Yosemite Native American legend.

The city is home to the historic distillery which produces Anís del Mono, a spirit made of herbs and anise, the most famous anisette in Spain.

One notable feature of the Basin and Range is Mono Lake, which is the oldest lake in North America.

The ka-tet is eventually reunited at the Cradle of Lud, a train station which houses a monorail that the travelers use to escape Lud before its final destruction brought about by the monorail's artificial intelligence known as Blaine the Mono.

This only road into this area is Minaret Summit Road which becomes State Route 203 at the Mono County border, connecting this area to Mammoth Lakes.

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.

Little is known about Mono other than that she was somehow sacrificed because she was believed to have a cursed destiny.

Cornell University and Point Reyes Bird Observatory have continued the study of nesting populations on Mono Lake that was begun over 20 years ago.

All of the known historic eruptions in the contiguous United States have been from either Cascade volcanoes or near Mono Lake.

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.

For over 3, 000 years Sierra Miwok, Mono, Paiute, and other Native American groups have lived in the central Sierra Nevada region of California.

Thus, in North America, there is an active second generation of reformational philosophers in Calvin Seerveld ; a third generation including Hendrik Hart, Bernard Zylstra ( deceased ), James Olthius, Arnold DeGraaff ( afterward a practicing psychotherapist for 30 years and co-founder of Mono Therapy Center, Mono, Ontario ), Thomas McIntire, Albert M. Wolters, William Rowe, George VanderVelde ( a theologian who took his doctorate under G. C. Berkouwer ); and fourth-generationers Paul Marshall and Robert Sweetman may be added-to name just those who have had active professorial roles at ICS.

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Throughout recorded history, the Mono have also been known as " Mona ," " Monache ," or " Northfork Mono ," as labeled by E. W.

The Cold Springs Mono have 275 tribal members.

The Big Sandy Mono have about 495 members.

Since that time visitor services have been offered as a cooperative effort between these two agencies, as well as the Mono Lake Committee.

They have made songs for a compilation CD series called My Other Band for Mono vs.