{"id":18815,"date":"2023-12-31T09:56:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T04:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18815"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:46:17","slug":"salton-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/salton-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Salton Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Salton Sea<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0shallow, saline lake\u00a0located in the lower Colorado Desert, southern\u00a0California, USA.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0geological depression tucked between mountain ranges and lying below sea level.<\/li>\n<li>Formation:\n<ul>\n<li>The area that is now the lake was\u00a0formerly a salt-covered sink or depression (a remnant of\u00a0prehistoric Lake Cahuilla) about 280 feet (85 metres) below sea level\u00a0until 1905\u201306, when diversion controls on the Colorado River\u00a0broke a few miles below the California-Mexico border and\u00a0floodwaters rushed northward, filling the depression.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Subsequent deepening of the sink was stopped in 1907, when a line of protective levees was built.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is currently 228 feet below sea level.<\/li>\n<li>It covers an area of 970 square km and includes 130 miles of shoreline.<\/li>\n<li>It has an average depth of 29.9 feet and, at its deepest, 51 feet.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its salinity (some 45 parts per thousand) far\u00a0exceeds that of seawater.<\/li>\n<li>The Salton Sea is an important stopping point for migratory waterfowl and serves as\u00a0critical habitat for birds moving south to Mexico and Central America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Lithium<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0soft, silvery-white metal that heads group 1, the\u00a0alkali metals group, of the periodic table of the elements.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It has the\u00a0lowest density of all metals.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0lightest of the solid elements.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0reacts vigorously with water.<\/li>\n<li>It has a\u00a0body-centered cubic crystal structure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Occurrence:\n<ul>\n<li>Lithium\u00a0does not occur as a metal in nature but is\u00a0found combined in small amounts in\u00a0igneous rocks.<\/li>\n<li>Lithium is\u00a0found in brine deposits\u00a0and as salts in mineral springs.<\/li>\n<li>Its concentration\u00a0in seawater is 0.1 parts per million (ppm).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Uses:\n<ul>\n<li>Lithium is important\u00a0in rechargeable batteries for mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras, and electric vehicles.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also used in some non-rechargeable batteries for things like\u00a0heart pacemakers, toys, and clocks.<\/li>\n<li>Lithium metal is\u00a0made into alloys with aluminium and magnesium,\u00a0improving their strength\u00a0and making them lighter.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are alkali metals?<\/h3>\n<p>Alkali metals are a group of chemical elements found in Group 1 of the periodic table. The alkali metal group includes lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). These elements are highly reactive.Alkali metals are generally soft and can be easily cut with a knife. They have low densities compared to other metals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Metals\/Commodities\/Worlds-Largest-Lithium-Reserve-Discovered-Beneath-Californias-Salton-Sea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>World&#8217;s Largest Lithium Reserve Discovered Beneath California&#8217;s Salton Sea<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salton Sea is a shallow, saline lake located in the lower Colorado Desert, southern California,  USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}