Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Soda lakes

Spanish translation:

lagos alcalinos

Added to glossary by Taña Dalglish
Jun 22, 2016 12:24
7 yrs ago
English term

Soda lake

English to Spanish Science Geology
"The Soda Lakes, caustic and alkaline, are the most inhospitable waters in Africa"

I've did some research and I've found "lagos alcalinos". May be there a more proper term? Thanks in advance!
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Jun 23, 2016 15:50: Taña Dalglish Created KOG entry

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English term (edited): soda lakes
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lagos alcalinos - your option is fine

I think your option is fine. By a proper term, what do you mean? More scientific name? Your text appears more general in nature with the snippet you have provided, so I don't think you need to go searching much further.


The first link is from a scientific publication and "lagos alcalinos" is used:
http://www.raco.cat/index.php/ECT/article/viewFile/306520/39...
Mediante los estromatolitos
se puede deducir la existencia de seres vivos en los periodos más antiguos de la historia geológica de la Tierra o en paleoambientes sedimentarios extremos (medios hipersalinos, fuentes termales, ** lagos alcalinos ** o ácidos)

http://www.eolss.net/ebooks/sample chapters/c03/e6-73-05-01....
©Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). See table, for example, for "soda lakes" in Africa:
Libya - Lake Fezzan
Egypt - Wadi Natrun

Inventario nacional de recursos minerales de cloruro sódico y sales ...
https://books.google.com.jm/books?isbn=8478402888 -
1997
Lagos alcalinos (soda lakes) Se encuentran en regiones con substrato de rocas volcánicas y suelos enriquecidos en sodio, en condiciones adecuadas para ...

Limnologia: - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com.jm/books?isbn=8579751012 - Translate this page
José Galizia Tundisi, ‎Takako Matsumura Tundisi - 2016 - ‎Science
continentais Agricultura intensiva 10 – 25 Pastagens 0,5 – 3,0 Desertos 0,5 Fonte: Morris (1974). Nos lagos alcalinos da África (soda lakes) obtevese uma alta ...

[PDF]Biogeochemical processes and the diversity of Nhecolândia lakes, Brazil
www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v83n2/v83n2a04.pdf
by TIR Almeida - ‎2011 - ‎Cited by 10 - ‎Related articles
the soda lakes of the East African Rift Valley, consid- ering the descriptions of ...... Palavras-chave: Pantanal, lagos alcalinos, lagos salinos, cia- nobactérias ...

Lake saline lakes - Academia.edu
www.academia.edu/.../The_macrobenthic_fauna_of_a_former_per...
Totolcingo (El Carmen), a large and now episodically filled playa lake in the east-ernmost portion of the ... Saline efflorescences containing a high percentage of soda, known as 'tequezquite' (from the ..... Estudio químico de los lagos alcalinos.

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