Photo: Crust of the Salar de Uyuni


Salar de Uyuni, orig­i­nally uploaded by lorien.

The ground on the salt flats of the Uyuni in Bolivia is just a com­par­a­tively thin layer of earth crust over water. Gas emis­sions break through the salty crust and cre­ate these shapes which stretch out far into the horizon.

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