Brine Deposits at the Salar de Atacama (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Brine Deposits at the Salar de Atacama

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UMass Amherst graduate student Lilly Corenthal making notes at one of the largest lithium brine and salt deposits in the world, a deposit 3,900 feet thick in Chile's Atacama Desert, with the Andes Mountains in the background. The basin drains a surprisingly larger area of the Andean Plateau than geoscientists had expected.

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