Subsurface waters enter the bottom of Mono Lake through small springs. It took many decades to form the well-recognized tufa towers. When lake levels

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Subsurface waters enter the bottom of Mono Lake through small springs. It took many decades to form the well-recognized tufa towers. When lake levels fell, the tufa towers came to rise above the water surface

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