The arid climate also preserved everything from ancient statues to furnishings, clothes and even receipts.

The nuns have essentially no money and subsist by living off the land, on what vegetables the arid climate provides, and some milk and eggs.

It has an arid climate, an annual average rainfall of 300 mm, and experiences occasional tropical cyclones.

The combination of these conditions (salt presence, diapir movement, surface breaching, and arid climate) are what make finding salt glaciers so rare.

Areas with restricted sea water circulation coupled with arid climate create evaporite deposits.