Petukhovo (russian: Петухово) is an
alkaline lake
A soda lake or alkaline lake is a lake on the strongly alkaline side of neutrality, typically with a pH, pH value between 9 and 12. They are characterized by high concentrations of carbonate salts, typically sodium carbonate (and related salt com ...
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Klyuchevsky District (russian: Ключе́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #28-ZS and municipalLaw #141-ZS district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Altai Krai, fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the ...
, Altai Krai
Altai Krai (russian: Алта́йский край, r=Altaysky kray, p=ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar ...
, Russian Federation.Google Earth
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Klyuchi
Klyuchi (russian: Ключи; lit. ''springs'') is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
* Klyuchi, Kamchatka Krai, a former town in Kamchatka Oblast; since 2004 — a rural locality; since 2007 — in Kamchatka Krai
* Klyuchi, Biysky ...
, the district capital, lies to the west.[Google Maps - Ozero Petukhovo](_blank)
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In 1998 the lake was declared a natural monument of regional significance. Petukhovo is a soda lake and there is a soda plant operating near it that has been extracting raw material from it for over a century.Основан 100 лет назад. Петуховский содовый завод.
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Geography
Located in the Kulunda Plain, Petukhovo has an irregular shape, stretching roughly from northwest to southeast for approximately .dolomite Dolomite may refer to:
*Dolomite (mineral), a carbonate mineral
*Dolomite (rock), also known as dolostone, a sedimentary carbonate rock
*Dolomite, Alabama, United States, an unincorporated community
*Dolomite, California, United States, an unincor ...
, and Mg-calcite
Calcite is a Carbonate minerals, carbonate mineral and the most stable Polymorphism (materials science), polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). It is a very common mineral, particularly as a component of limestone. Calcite defines hardness 3 on ...
, with the proportion of carbonates increasing in the lower part of the section. The water has a mineralization of and a pH of 9.5.Shukyrtuz
Shukyrtuz (russian: Шукыртуз) is a salt lake in Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth
The lake is located at the western edge of the Krai. The Russia-Kazakhstan border lies to the southwest. The nearest inha ...
lies to the north and Kurichye to the south. to the southwest there is another smaller lake named Petukhovo or Petukhovskoye, west of Severka
Severka (russian: Северка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Seversky Selsoviet of Klyuchevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 1,562 as of 2016. There are 16 streets.
Geography
Severka is loc ...
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Flora and fauna
The lake is surrounded by deforested steppe
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
landscape of low hills.[Озеро Петухово](_blank)
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See also
* List of lakes of Russia
References
External links
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Ключевский район - Алтайская краевая универсальная научная библиотека
Biota of hyperhaline lakes of the south of Western Siberia
Lakes of Altai Krai
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Kulunda Steppe
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