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Image: Hexagonal Shaped Salt Crust at Badwater

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Description: Repeated freeze-thaw and evaporation cycles gradually pushed the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes. The shapes are more evident with the Sun positioned in front of the camera.
Title: Hexagonal Shaped Salt Crust at Badwater
Credit: self-made; at Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California, USA
Author: Wing-Chi Poon
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
License Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
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