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PRINCIPLES OF STRATIGRAPHY 



Analyses of Types of Lake JJ^ater — Continued. 



2. Alkaline Lakes. 



El Goodenough Lake, British Columbia, carbonate waters. 



E2 Palic Lake, Hungary, carbonate waters. 



Fi Humboldt Lake, Nevada, carbonate-chloride waters. 



F2 Albert Lake, Oregon, carbonate-chloride waters. 



F3 Pyramid Lake, Nevada (mean of four concordant analyses), 



carbonate-chloride waters. 

 •F4 Borax Lake, Lake Co., California, carbonate-chloride waters. 



Gi Owen's Lake, California, "Triple" waters (1905). 

 , G2 Soda Lake, Nevada, "Triple" waters. 



Hi Lake Biljo, Siberia, alkaline sulphate-chloride waters. 



H2 Lake Koko-Nor, Tibet, alkaline sulphate-chloride waters. 



}'■■■ For Comparison 

 I Ocean water. 



The composition of saline lakes in percentage of total solids is 

 given in the following partial analyses of the waters of Great Salt 

 Lake, a normal chloride water ; of the Dead Sea, a natural bittern ; 

 and of the Caspian Sea, a sulphate-chloride water. The composi- 



