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Mono Lake is the sister lake to the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Both lakes have no natural outlet so water collect and evaporates leaving a body of water with two and a half times the salt and eight times the alkalinety of sea water. When mountain springs (high) in calcium meet the lake (high in carbonates) the result is these calcium carbonate "Tufas" which grow at about an inch per year. We visited the South Tufa area where the Tufas are estimated to be 200 to 900 years old.