salt flat

A highlight for her is visiting the salt flats high up in the Andes where the lithium is mined and life is "chill".

About half of those who took part worked in jobs where they were exposed to high levels of heat, such as agriculture, brick kilns and salt flats.

She looks at the stretching salt flats, and the water that has breathed life into their barren land.

“We want them to come back and be the classic beautiful white salt flats that they should be,” Andler said of her appreciation for the salt polygons.

Gypsum and carbonate strontium isotope ratio measurements were used to determine sources of water that carried the sediments to the salt flats.