Stacked salt plates, dry salt lake at Dallol, Danakil Depression, Afar Region, Ethiopia, Africa

afar province afar region afar triangle afar africa barrenness barren dallol danakil depression danakil depression danakil desert deserted deserts desert desolate dried droughts drought dryness dry east africa eastern africa empty ethiopian ethiopia heat hostile to life lakes lake life hostile lifting up lifting lift up lift meager meagre mineral deposits mineral deposit minerals mineral nobody no one no people on each other one upon the other piled piles pile raise rock salt tiles rock salt tile rock salt rosy saline lake saline sea salt desert salt flat salt lakes salt lake salt pan salt sea salts salt tile salt sedimentation sediments sediment stacked stack uninhabited