Silver Lake (Mojave)

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lake_name = Silver Lake
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location = Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California
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type = playa lake
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Silver Lake is a playa lake in San Bernardino County, California. The lake is in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and along with Soda Lake, is what remains of Lake Mojave, a large, perennial lake that existed during portions of the last ice age. The Mojave River terminates at Soda Lake, but the river has flowed into Silver Lake in historic times (as recently as the very wet winter of 2004-2005). A channel that has been modified by humans exists between the lakes. The lake occasionally has water, but it usually dry. Silver Lake does not have salt crusts, like Soda Lake does, because the groundwater is deeper. Salt crusts form from the repeated capillary rise of salty groundwater, followed by evaporation.

References

* [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1007/playas.html USGS - Playas]
* [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1007/river.html USGS - The Mojave River and Associated Lakes]