Mono Lake is an alkaline and hypersaline lake believed to have formed at least 760,000 years ago. It is in a caldera which was volcanically active as recently as 350 years ago.
References
Dana, Edward Salisbury (1884), A crystallographic study of the thinolite of Lake Lahonton: USGS Bulletin 12: 19.
Russell, Israel Cook (1889), Quaternary history of Mono Valley, California: USGS 8th. Annual Report: 261-394.
Murdoch, Joseph (1951c), Notes on California minerals: nuevite = samarskite; trona, and hanksite; Gaylussite: American Mineralogist: 36: 358-361.
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 235.
Geology: 21: 971-974.
Scholl, David W. & William H. Taft (1964), Deposition, mineralogy, and C14 dating of tufa, Mono Lake, California (abstract): el. Doc. Amer. Cordilleran Sec. Meeting Program: 56 March, 1964: 56.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 82, 118, 197, 210, 214.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 211, 216, 287.
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