Stonefloat Sea

The Stonefloat Sea is a giant hypersaline lake to the east of the sunspire, seperating the two halves of Adustia. Elevated 200 meters above sea level, the sea drains into the Irretic Ocean through a complex of brine waterfalls. Stonefloat Sea is noted for its bleached pumice rock 'glaciers' which float all over the sea, making it seem arctic at first glance. The water of the Stonefloat Sea is extremely hard and alkaline owing to the dissolved salts. The alkalinity is high enough to cause severe caustic burns to human skin given long-term exposure. As such, only extreme halophiles live in and around the sea.

Geography
The Stonefloat Sea borders the Ashsparge volcano's subsidiary complexes on the south and flows into the Irretic Ocean on the east. Though the land immediately around the sea are salted and unarrable, lands further from the sea can support halophilic plants and animals.

Geology
The rock glaciers across the Stonefloat Sea are highly variable in size, with the largest pumice shelves having diameters over 3 kilometers while the smallest might just be a few meters across. A typical rock glacier is about 50 meters across, and usually raised at least 4 meters above the caustic waters.

Smaller pumice rocks and ash coat the surface of the Stonefloat Sea in places and are moved around by wind and water currents. These are known as ashflows. Unlike the rock glaciers, which are usually uniformly white, ashflows come in a variety of different shades and hues. The most common are brick-red, gray, and black.

Ecology
The Stonefloat Sea supports an extremely barren ecosystem comprising mostly of halophilic archaea and vendobionts which graze on them. The only terrestrial animals which live in the sea are insectivorous heads which use their telekinesis to lift their vendobiont prey directly from the sea. These heads employ a special method of molecular telekinesis to separate the dissolved salts from the water in the sea, thus making fresh water for thmselves to drink.

Upon some of the largest rock glaciers, eusocial heads cultivate ponds they seed with fresh water, algae, and non-halophilic vendobionts. Worker heads tirelessly distill water from the sea, not unlike the leafcutting habits of Atta ants. Fresh water which spills onto the sea as a result of their distillation do not mix with the sea's brine, and thus float at the top, supporting a layer of floating plants.